Ah, the public corporation! Fictive structures created so that profit-making shall never be interfered with by moral or ethical concerns!
Just creating shareholder value, what else can you expect us to do!
Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
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#12What was the point of taking this to shareholders? On what planet would anyone expect them to vote any other way?
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#13Shouldn't this technology be outlawed outside law enforcement? It sounds like it can be used like a powerful tool.
I'm actually rather the /most/ concerned about law enforcement having access to it.
Re: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
#14Shouldn't this technology be outlawed outside law enforcement? It sounds like it can be used like a powerful tool.
Why should private analysis of photos legally acquired be illegal? If computers are legal and software is legal and photography is legal, it seems to me that running your own software on your own computers over your own photos should be legal. I don’t like the implication either, but I think perhaps the thing we should be looking at is why it is legal for companies to take photos of us for commercial purposes without…
Right, so parent is suggesting making facial recognition software (as a class) illegal. You'd still be able to use your legal computer to analyze legal photographs, but we could, as a society, say it is a Bad Idea™ to make that analysis trivial.
Alternatively we could say that everyone should be able to do facial recognition analysis, but then access to the photographs becomes the gatekeeper of power.
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#15Dont buy from Amazon. How hard can it be
Surprisingly difficult. Winding down from Amazon personally has taken months, but thats futile. At work I spend 8 figures a year on AWS.
Re: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
#16Shouldn't this technology be outlawed outside law enforcement? It sounds like it can be used like a powerful tool.
Why should private analysis of photos legally acquired be illegal? If computers are legal and software is legal and photography is legal, it seems to me that running your own software on your own computers over your own photos should be legal. I don’t like the implication either, but I think perhaps the thing we should be looking at is why it is legal for companies to take photos of us for commercial purposes without…
Amazon stuff runs on Amazon servers... cloud means, it is not your computer, most likey not your Software and sooner or later not your data.
Re: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
#17What was the point of taking this to shareholders? On what planet would anyone expect them to vote any other way?
The point of it was to deliver an excuse as to why their hands are tied, it went to vote precisely because the outcome was already obvious.
Re: Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
#18Ah, the public corporation! Fictive structures created so that profit-making shall never be interfered with by moral or ethical concerns! Just creating shareholder value, what else can you expect us to do!
I do wish you were exaggerating...
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#20Shouldn't this technology be outlawed outside law enforcement? It sounds like it can be used like a powerful tool.
Yeah I don't care much about what Amazon does with it, at least compared to the police. Amazon doesn't have the ability to kill me or lock me in a cage for 50 years.