Nel caso fosse sfuggito a questa lista. Alberto -------- Original Message -------- From: Peter Asaro <peterasaro@sbcglobal.net> Sent: June 27, 2018 3:40:42 PM UTC To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] Invitation to Sign Open Letter regarding Amazon's Rekognition (Apologies for Cross-posting) Invitation to Sign an Open Letter from Academics and Researchers to Amazon Amazon <https://gizmodo.com/amazon-workers-demand-jeff-bezos-cancel-face-recognitio-1827037509>workers have come out against Rekognition, an AI-driven face recognition technology offered through Amazon's AWS cloud service. This type of low-cost face recognition technology <https://medium.com/s/story/amazon-needs-to-stop-providing-facial-recognition-tech-for-the-government-795741a016a6>threatens to make every individual identifiable in any private or public space with cameras, and opens up a host of severe threats to civil liberties and human rights. The workers have been <http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/18/technology/amazon-facial-recognition/index.html>joined by Amazon shareholders, and <https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/22/coalition-letter-amazon-regarding-facial-recognition-system-rekognition>a coalition of over 70 civil rights and human rights groups. While Rekognition is not (yet) a military application, it is being sold to police departments, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Amazon provides essential cloud services (with embedded AI features) also to the <https://www.palantir.com/solutions/defense/>Palantir company which in turn provides AI services to police departments and the US military, including an <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/peter-thiel-s-palantir-wins-876-million-u-s-army-contract>$879M contract for the US Army's new intelligence IT system. <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/some-quick-thoughts-on-the-public-discussion-regarding-facial-recognition-and-amazon-rekognition-this-past-week/>Amazon's response to these protests has been weak, saying people shouldn't use its Amazon Rekognition software illegally, but offering no mechanism for oversight as to how their services are used. And so we are asking you to sign on to an Open Letter to Amazon management, calling on them to stop providing their Rekognition system to governments and law enforcement, to stop providing AI cloud services to companies that provide such services to police departments and militaries, including Palantir, and to establish ethical guidelines and transparency and accountability measures for the AI services that they do provide. You can read the full letter and add your signature here: <https://www.icrac.net/open-letter-to-amazon-against-police-and-government-use-of-rekognition/>https://www.icrac.net/open-letter-to-amazon-against-police-and-government-use-of-rekognition/ Sincerely, Peter Asaro, Kelly Gates, Woodrow Hartzog, Lilly Irani, Evan Selinger, and Lucy Suchman ______________________________________ Peter M. Asaro, PhD | THE NEW SCHOOL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MEDIA STUDIES SCHOOL OF MEDIA STUDIES <http://www.newschool.edu/>THE NEW SCHOOL 79 5th Avenue, Room 1619, New York, NY 10003, USA p | 212 229 8903 x 3902, <mailto:asarop@newschool.edu>asarop@newschool.edu f | 212 229 5357 The New School <mailto:asarop@newschool.edu>asarop@newschool.edu www.peterasaro.org <http://www.twitter.com/PeterAsaro>@PeterAsaro AFFILIATE SCHOLAR CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/>STANFORD LAW <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/>SCHOOL AFFILIATE MEMBER 4TU CENTRE FOR ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY <http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/member/asaro-p-peter/>UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE