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Amazon Spent $24,000 to Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban

• therockspush 6y ago
  24k?? Those city council members should be ashamed of themselves. They could have gotten a lot more.
  • fakedang 6y ago
    They're city council members. Being dim is a given.
  • powerslacker 6y ago
    Seriously. If you're going to sell out, at least make it worth your while.
• tqi 6y ago
  The original source article states that the amount was $12k, not sure where the $24k comes from. The Vice article also characterized their actions as "silently lobbying" without any details on what that actually entailed. Did Amazon hire someone to take meetings with the law makers on this issue? If so, that seems entirely reasonable and not at all sinister...
• anm89 6y ago
  Jesus. I would personally pay 24k to secure a facial recognition ban for an entire major American city. Is that all it takes?
• tootahe45 6y ago
  'Racist techology' lol.
• zalkota 6y ago
  These regulations only hurt small companies.