I personally believe that facial recognition software will eventually be employed by law enforcement no matter what we do; I also believe that this is a bad thi

I personally believe that facial recognition software will eventually be employed by law enforcement no matter what we do; I also believe that this is a bad thing and lies on the path to a controlling and pervasive police state. However, this article states clearly that there are recommendations to LE on how to use Rekognition in a meaningful and correct manner for LE's use case. I am highly confident that Amazon will provide technical documentation and manuals for a contract of that size; of course Amazon will not be able to conduct oversight on LE operations. LE may missuse it, the way they've missused Stingrays, stoplight cameras, clipper chips, and other devices. You state that having 99% accuracy for identifying an individual will do large scale harm, and I agree; what about the 1 person out of every 100 that is falsly identified? The other side to this coin is the number of people law enforcement would miss recognizing without this software... This argument comes down to human ability vs. machine learning ability, and human discretion in interpreting results. I think with proper use it'll be a benefit to identying culprits quickly. Regardless, it is still pretty evil giving LE any tool that can autonomously monitor people who have not committed any crimes. But who's going to stop them?