The terror of ICE’s detention and deportation machine can be summarized with just two names -- Felipe Gómez Alonzo and Jakelin Caal.
Two migrant children, among dozens of adults, killed by immigration detention since Trump.
Amidst this horror, tech-giant Amazon wants a piece of the action. Last year the company met with ICE to pitch its controversial facial recognition tech and expressed “unwavering” commitment to support governmental agencies, including ICE -- but there is still time.
With Amazon up against the ropes following the victory against HQ2 in NYC, will you help us disrupt Amazon’s aggressive marketing of its dystopian tech before it is too late? No company can justify selling to the highest bidder with no regard for human rights.
Tell Amazon not to let its facial recognition tech become another cog in ICE’s deportation machine.
Amazon’s facial recognition tools are already in use, enabling police departments to scan through traffic, surveillance, and body-worn cameras in real time—practices which are illegal in some states. But if Amazon and ICE get their way, our right to biometric privacy might be lost forever.
Amazon’s ICE deal would give Trump’s deportation force unchecked power to profile undocumented immigrants and everyone knows it. Tech giant Microsoft as well as congress have both suggested regulations citing privacy concerns that corporations can’t be trusted with. And earlier this month when thousands of New Yorkers celebrated Amazon pulling its HQ2 plans from Queens, many noticed that pinpointing the company’s relationship with ICE may have led to the victory. While they are vulnerable, we have the chance to stop Amazon from selling ICE dangerous facial recognition tools.
SumOfUs members like you have been reigning in Amazon’s worst offenses for years. Your actions have exposed Amazon’s ties to Breitbart news and the NRA, forced Amazon to raise wages for warehouse workers, organized shareholders to demand accountability from Jeff Bezos, and pushed the company to drop Islamophobic and anti-Semitic merchandise from its online store.
We’ve done it before, but this might be our biggest fight against Amazon yet—and we can’t win without your voice.
Call on Amazon to rescind its bid to equip ICE with dangerous facial recognition technology it will use to further criminalize immigrants.
More information
Amazon promises "unwavering"commitment to Police, Military clients using AI technology
The Intercept. 30 July 2018.
The Intercept. 30 July 2018.
Amazon pitched its facial recognition system to ICE
The Verge. 23 October 2018.
The Verge. 23 October 2018.
