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Lawmakers Press Amazon on Face-Scanning Tech Pitched to ICE

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Following report from The Daily Beast and the Project on Government Oversight.

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Eight Democratic lawmakers led by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) pressed Amazon for answers about the online giant’s efforts to sell controversial real-time facial-recognition technology to law-enforcement agencies.

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