The Infinite Brief

Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image. It can quickly scan information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces, according to Amazon.

The company’s materials describe “person tracking” as an “easy and accurate” way to investigate and monitor people.

The ACLU and a coalition of civil rights organizations demanded that Amazon stop allowing governments to use Rekognition.