yeah amazon already had contracts with the military and DHS including providing facial recognition software to help ICE (and god knows what other agencies) but nothing scary about this! https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1357122709403164680
oh i forgot the cloud hosting they do for the literal CIA lol https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/
The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon

A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community. 

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
tech giants like amazon/facebook/tesla+space x (and the late Theranos ofc, rip) should be viewed as extensions of the military/intelligence complex the way we think of raytheon/lockheed/boeing
on that note, in addition to the obvious present-day surveillance implications, here's an interesting thread about what could come of the data collected by things like these cameras (as well as amazon/tesla's huge investment in Low Earth Orbit satellites) https://twitter.com/2youngBadazz/status/1333425039639658497
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