US lawmakers aims to curtail face recognition Microsoft and Amazon halted facial recognition sales to police this month following nationwide protests Reuters January 19, 2021 Visitors check their phones behind the screen advertising facial recognition software during Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) at the National Convention in Beijing, China April 27, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known wrongful arrest based on the technology in the United States. Robert Williams, who is Black, spent over a day in Detroit police custody in January after Rank One’s face recognition software connected his driver’s license photo to a surveillance video of someone shoplifting, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) said.