Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists Katyanna Quach Mon 24 May 2021 // 06:27 UTC Share Copy In brief Amazon promised it would refuse to allow the police to use its controversial Rekognition service for one year, and has decided to continue its ban indefinitely. Amazon committed to a one-year moratorium on its facial-recognition technology back in June 2020. And now it's going to continue that freeze, according to Reuters. The moratorium, however, only covers police departments, and Amazon still sells access to its Rekognition technology to organizations that may well end up supplying services to cop shops, and to government agencies, too.