Safety and alignment

Amazon pauses police use of Rekognition for one year

Amazon imposed a one-year moratorium on police use of its Rekognition facial-recognition service while leaving selected nonprofit uses available and urging Congress to establish stronger rules.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM24confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

The moratorium temporarily restricted a consequential surveillance deployment and created time for regulation, but it was time-limited, preserved other uses, and did not clearly cover every federal law-enforcement agency.

AUDIT TRAIL

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 24 · confidence 94

    New source-verified historical access restriction absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026