As public discourse shifts to the role private companies have in police surveillance, tech companies are limiting or abandoning the sale of their facial recognition software.

Last month, Amazon announced a one-year moratorium on selling its facial recognition tech to police agencies. IBM stopped selling its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software and Microsoft declared it will not sell facial recognition technology to U.S. police departments until there is a national law “grounded in human rights.”

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