Amazon on Wednesday confirmed that shareholders rejected proposals to prohibit sales of facial recognition technology to governments and study how it might threaten privacy or civil rights.
The proposals voted down at Amazon's annual stockholders meeting were put forth by a group of shareholders but opposed by the board of directors.
Seattle-based Amazon developed facial-recognition technology called Rekognition and sells it as part of its cloud services unit.
Several police departments have tested Rekognition, and Amazon is ..