Orlando Police End Test Of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System

An image from a presentaton by Amazon's Ranju Das shows a demonstration of real-time facial recognition and tracking. Das said the video came from a traffic cam in Orlando, where police were in a pilot program of Amazon's Rekognition service. An image from a presentaton by Amazon's Ranju Das shows a demonstration of real-time facial recognition and tracking. Das said the video came from a traffic cam in Orlando, where police were in a pilot program of Amazon's Rekognition service. The city of Orlando, Fla., says it has ended a pilot program in which its police force used Amazon's real-time facial recognition – a system called "Rekognition" that had triggered complaints from rights and privacy groups when its use was revealed earlier this year.