Orlando, FL completed its second pilot of Rekognition police department facial-recognition platform

Orlando, FL completed its second pilot of Rekognition

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The city has completed their second pilot of Rekognition, a facial-recognition platform by Amazon, and concluded that they will not be using the software after testing it on police staff. City officials stated that they lacked sufficient resources to continue testing the product.

Public Safety Facial Recognition

Orlando, FL

Municipality in Florida

United States

Vendors

Amazon

Amazon is an international e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.

Links

Facial Recognition Pilot Program - City of Orlando

Due to the potential value that facial recognition technology could have in furthering public safety efforts, the city conducted two pilots to evaluate and further internally test Amazon Web Service’s facial recognition technology.

Amazon Rekognition – Video and Image - AWS

Learn about Amazon Rekognition and how you can quickly and easily build visual analysis for your applications.

Attachments

Amazon Pilot Program Memo July 2019

398.95KB

Statement of Pilot Phase 2

970.18KB

Newsworthy

Orlando stops using Amazon facial recognition tool | StateScoop

City officials said they cannot dedicate the resources needed to continue using the much-criticized technology.

Amazon’s Rekognition failed in Orlando. The company is having more success using Ring devices for surveillance.

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Room for Improvement

The city did not have sufficient resources to continue testing the product.

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