Oversight

‘Shock, Anger, Disappointment’: An Amazon Employee Speaks Out

The company’s controversial face recognition software is being used by police

Trevor Timm
GEN
Published in
5 min readOct 16, 2018

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In June, more than 100 Amazon employees signed a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, strongly protesting the company’s push to sell its controversial facial recognition software, known as…

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.