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Amazon's Palm Print Recognition

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2021 in Politics

Here is how going from the elementary lunch line training to becoming an adult and doing it for all transactions soon enough here in The USA. The concerns by politicians on this topic is just lip service that all privacy laws will be applied for your protection, what a joke it all is.

Amazon has the contract for most cloud servers for The USA government, and they would never demand that all data should be scrutinized for domestic purposes.right? After all if you have nothing to hide why should you worry? Like gun ownership?

serf

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/amazons-palm-print-recognition-raises-concern-among-us-senators-2111896

The lawmakers asked Amazon about plans to expand Amazon One, and to whom they had sold or licensed the technology. They also asked how many people had signed up for it, how the data is used, and if it is ever paired with * recognition systems.

NSA quietly awards $10 billion cloud contract to Amazon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/11/amazon-nsa-contract/

The NSA has offered few details about the purpose of the contract. An NSA spokesman said the agency had awarded a contract for “cloud computing support services,” but declined to elaborate or specify who won it. “The agency will respond to the protest in accordance with appropriate federal regulations,” the spokesman said.

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