{"id":382981,"date":"2018-10-30T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-orlando-cops-have-begun-a-secretive-second-trial-of-amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:10:33","slug":"prison-planet-com-orlando-cops-have-begun-a-secretive-second-trial-of-amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-orlando-cops-have-begun-a-secretive-second-trial-of-amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Orlando cops have begun a secretive SECOND trial of Amazon\u2019s controversial facial recognition system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6331111\/Orlando-cops-begun-secretive-SECOND-trial-Amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>New details have emerged about how\u00a0Amazon\u00a0markets its controversial facial recognition tech, Rekognition, to law enforcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Documents obtained by <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/daveyalba\/amazon-facial-recognition-orlando-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BuzzFeed News<\/a>\u00a0show that the internet giant provided the Orlando Police Department with \u2018tens of thousands of dollars worth of technology\u2019 for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes after Orlando decided to renew its Rekognition contract with Amazon in July, after it expired in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As part of the deal, Amazon has required Orlando to sign a nondisclosure agreement about the pilot, meaning that details about it wouldn\u2019t be publicly available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Amazon defended this and the decision to let Orlando use the technology for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Providing customers with an opportunity to test technology with free credits is a common practice in the industry and something we offer to many of our customers with various AWS services,\u2019 an Amazon Web Services spokesperson told BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6331111\/Orlando-cops-begun-secretive-SECOND-trial-Amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2018  at  8:09 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/orlando-cops-have-begun-a-secretive-second-trial-of-amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/orlando-cops-have-begun-a-secretive-second-trial-of-amazons-controversial-facial-recognition-system.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailOctober 30, 2018 New details have emerged about how\u00a0Amazon\u00a0markets its controversial facial recognition tech, Rekognition, to law enforcement. Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News\u00a0show that the internet giant provided the Orlando Police Department with \u2018tens of thousands of dollars worth of technology\u2019 for free. It comes after Orlando decided to renew its Rekognition contract with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}