Facial recognition software isn't particularly new and isn't specific to Amazon. Cato is just trying to sling manufactured mud at Bezos to further a political agenda because that's what they do.
Isn't Cato about "a political agenda" here in the same way the same way the EFF has political agendas?
This issue is political in the sense that it's very much about social policy... and it's just possible that it's bad social policy to let people perform/offer surveillance-at-scale as a service.
(It is kindof funny to see Cato discover one significant limit of a general philosophy of private market freedoms, though.)
Specifically, they take issue with the government creating demand for surveillance technology. Nothing unusual for a public policy organization that has Cato's perspective.
