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hakejamon Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

"public service" was a bit of a misnomer. The article states:

"Amazon is providing police departments in Orlando, Fla., and Washington County, Ore., with powerful facial recognition technology."

Rekognition is SaaS (software as a service). Anyone can pay for running Rekoginition on their data sets (within Amazon ToS). Rekognition was not created directly for the police departments in FL or OR.

hakejamon Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

Rekognition is a public service and not specific to law enforcement use[1].

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/

Disclaimer: I work for AWS.

hakejamon Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?

"Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...

Chris was an FBI hostage negotiator. His book takes you through some of his hostage negotiations and demonstrates his techniques.

As a software developer, I "negotiate" all day long from code reviews to getting a promotion. His advice has helped more times than I can count.