Amazon shareholders demand it stop selling facial recognition to governments
After Facebook, Amazon is the other company I wouldn&#x27;t trust to <i>not do</i> evil. Even if many more shareholders join in on this, I don&#x27;t see Jess Bezos caring about these things. The Amazon stock won&#x27;t suffer even if he publicly says he won&#x27;t listen to such shareholders. On the contrary, the stock may just shoot up.<p>The larger question on this topic is, &quot;If the big technology companies do not sell the technology to the governments, won&#x27;t somebody else do?&quot; Of course, the governments would find some domestic or foreign companies to buy such technology from (or even spend money on developing it). I think that&#x27;s inevitable over the course of time. But such pressure on companies <i>could possibly help</i> shape policy too (added several adjectives to indicate how difficult this would be).