亚马逊的员工要求他们的雇主停止向美国****面部识别软件和其他服务。在一封写给亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）并张贴在公司内部维基上的信中，员工表示他们“拒绝为侵犯人权的工具捐款”，理由是ICE虐待难民和移民，执法部门以黑人活动家为目标。此前，谷歌和微软也提出了类似的**。

“出于道德考虑，亚马逊河流域的人们，我们要求对我们的建筑进行选择，并对如何使用它发表意见，”这封由希尔首先报道的信说。员工们（不清楚有多少人在信上签名）提到IBM向纳粹**计算机服务是一个令人担忧的类似事件。”当时，IBM没有承担责任，当他们的角色被理解时，已经太晚了我们不会让这种情况再次发生。”

员工们呼吁亚马逊停止两项具体业务：向执法部门**面部识别软件（市场上称为亚马逊网络服务Rekognion），以及向Palantir（一家向ICE提供“关键任务”软件的数据分析公司）**AWS云服务。

5月，美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）的一项调查首次披露了亚马逊向警方**Rekognition软件的行为。该组织警告称，该技术的部署可能是美国自动化大规模监视的开始。与此同时，帕兰蒂尔自2014年奥巴马总统执政以来一直与ICE合作，帮助ICE管理针对和驱逐个人所需的大量个人数据。

亚马逊员工在信中提到，儿童在美国边境与家人分离是**的动机。他们写道：“面对美国这一不道德的政策，以及美国在这一具体政策之外对难民和移民越来越不人道的待遇，我们深感关切的是，亚马逊牵涉其中，它提供的基础设施和服务使ICE和DHS得以运作。”

亚马逊的**是硅谷工人对美国**工作的最新**。三月份，据透露，谷歌正在帮助五角大楼建立人工智能工具来分析无人机监控录像。员工**，十几人甚至辞职，结果，谷歌退出了合同，并宣布了不开发人工智能武器的新承诺。最近，微软有300多名员工要求该公司停止向ICE提供云服务。微软首席执行官萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）淡化了这项工作，称该公司只为信息和电子邮件等任务提供了良性软件。

微软或亚马逊的**活动是否会影响这些公司的政策还有待观察，但科技工作者对其雇主与美国**的工作采取积极态度的趋势似乎不会很快结束。

如Gizmodo所示，您可以阅读以下亚马逊员工的完整信函：

Dear Jeff,

We are troubled by the recent report from the ACLU exposing our company’s practice of selling AWS Rekognition, a powerful facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies. We don’t have to wait to find out how these technologies will be used. We already know that in the midst of historic militarization of police, renewed targeting of Black activists, and the growth of a federal deportation force currently engaged in human rights abuses — this will be another powerful tool for the surveillance state, and ultimately serve to harm the most marginalized. We are not alone in this view: over 40 civil rights organizati*** signed an open letter in opposition to the governmental use of facial recognition, while over 150,000 individuals signed another petition delivered by the ACLU.

We also know that Palantir runs on AWS. And we know that ICE relies on Palantir to power its detention and deportation programs. Along with much of the world we watched in horror recently as U.S. authorities tore children away from their parents. Since April 19, 2018 the Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers. This treatment goes against U.N. Refugee Agency guidelines that say children have the right to remain united with their parents, and that asylum-seekers have a legal right to claim asylum. In the face of this immoral U.S. policy, and the U.S.’s increasingly inhumane treatment of refugees and immigrants beyond this specific policy, we are deeply concerned that Amazon is implicated, providing infrastructure and services that enable ICE and DHS.

Technology like ours is playing an increasingly critical role across many sectors of society. What is clear to us is that our development and sales practices have yet to acknowledge the obligation that comes with this. Focusing solely on shareholder value is a race to the bottom, and one that we will not participate in.

We refuse to build the platform that powers ICE, and we refuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights.

As ethically concerned Amazonians, we demand a choice in what we build, and a say in how it is used. We learn from history, and we understand how IBM’s systems were employed in the 1940s to help Hitler. IBM did not take resp***ibility then, and by the time their role was understood, it was too late. We will not let that happen again. The time to act is now.

We call on you to:

Stop selling facial recognition services to law enforcement

Stop providing infrastructure to Palantir and any other Amazon partners who enable ICE.

Implement strong transparency and accountability measures, that include enumerating which law enforcement agencies and companies supporting law enforcement agencies are using Amazon services, and how.

Our company should not be in the surveillance business; we should not be in the policing business; we should not be in the business of supporting those who monitor and oppress marginalized populati***.

Sincerely,

Amazonians