A House lawmaker is pressing Amazon.com Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos to reveal more details about the company’s plans to pause selling facial-recognition software to law enforcement.
Representative Jimmy Gomez, a California Democrat, wrote Bezos in a letter dated Tuesday that Amazon should say whether it will stop developing its facial-recognition system during its one-year moratorium on police use of the software. Amazon along with International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced last week they would stop -- in some cases just temporarily --- selling facial-recognition software to law enforcement.
