Amazon has extended its ban on providing facial-recognition technology to law enforcement indefinitely. The company declined to elaborate on the decision, but it comes about a week after civil liberties groups called on Amazon to "permanently ban law enforcement from using Amazon’s facial recognition software, Rekognition." As Forbes reports, it's also a week before a May 26 shareholder meeting, where a "shareholder proposal is calling for an independent third-party audit on the risks linked with government use of Rekognition." In June 2020, as the country was up in arms over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Amazon announced a one-year moratorium on offering Rekognition for “police use." At the time, it said it hoped the pause would "give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules." Microsoft made a similar pledge at the time.