# We are implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition - Host: [blog.aboutamazon.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/blog.aboutamazon.com/) - Saved: June 15, 2020 (2020-06-16T01:35:13Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ce0cff59e468/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ce0cff59e468.json ## What Jamie wrote This is a good move from Amazon, but please remember that Amazon also owns Ring. Ring has been shown to flag Black people as "suspicious" at an incredibly high rate. The marketing for the product is entirely sold on fear. I would suggest that Amazon look further than just Rekognition. Ring has always been a privacy nightmare, but it’s use of algorithms that reflect racist patterns is and fear mongering needs to be dealt with. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT153: Weekly Thing #153 / Values Oasis, Bison, Masks](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/153/), Recommended Links ## Saved the same week - [The Problems, The Privilege, and the Pain of Being Invisible – Rhoneisms](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9e83492c6457/) (patrickrhone.net, June 15, 2020) - [Dana Blankenhorn: The Cost of Free Money](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1e5cae6f2185/) (danablankenhorn.com, June 15, 2020) - [Joanna Hoffman: Facebook is peddling 'an addictive drug called anger'](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0573e2c00f2a/) (cnbc.com, June 15, 2020) - [The Masks Masquerade - INCERTO - Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ecd5c1d76020/) (medium.com, June 15, 2020) - [Do You Know How Divided White And Black Americans Are On Racism? | FiveThirtyEight](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/001e19a6c92c/) (projects.fivethirtyeight.com, June 15, 2020) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/we-are-implementing-a-one-year-moratorium-on-police-use-of-rekognition