Amazon + Facial Recognition + Police = What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

In a move that will surprise no one who reads science-fiction, Amazon is now selling a facial recognition tool, called Rekognition, to local police departments, marketing it as a “low cost” way to track persons of interest. According to the company, this tool recognizes “tens of millions of faces” and can pick out “up to 100 faces in challenging crowded photos.” What could possibly go wrong?

President Donald Trump persists in vulgarly describing long-time Cambridge professor Stefan Halper as a “spy.” Not so, insists official Washington—not because the old don wasn’t working to get secret information as part of an FBI counter-intelligence operation, but because spy is the wrong word. The FBI doesn’t use spies, tweets an outraged James Comey, it employs “Confidential Human Sources (the actual term).”

Did the NFL Just Trade One PR Disaster for Another?

With the National Football League punting on how to handle players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police mistreatment of African Americans, all the owners (and Commissioner Roger Goodell) may have done is trade one headache for another: Accelerating the pending labor Armageddon which many analysts believe could cost the league part, if not all, of a season when the current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2020 season.

The partial repeal of Dodd Frank could have gone farther, but it's a good start.

Republicans praise the president, Democrats call him a poor negotiator.

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Amazon + Facial Recognition + Police = What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Did the NFL Just Trade One PR Disaster for Another?

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