Amazon and Ring seek dismissal of Familiar Faces biometric privacy lawsuit
Amazon and Ring are asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action over Ring’s controversial Familiar Faces facial…
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Amazon Rekognition faces scrutiny in false arrest lawsuit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was added as a defendant in a federal lawsuit brought by a St. Louis, Missouri man…
Amazon Ring sued over facial recognition feature as privacy fight moves to federal court
Amazon and its Ring home security subsidiary have been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of…
Amazon ordered to share ‘limited source code’ in biometric data privacy dispute
Amazon’s legal representation in a lawsuit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act has taken the awkward position that its…
Amazon bids farewell to palm biometrics, discontinues Amazon One for retail
Amazon has announced it will discontinue the use of its Amazon One palm biometric payment system across retail businesses. Amazon…
Amazon Pay adds biometrics to UPI payment options in India
Amazon Pay has rolled out biometric authentication for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India. Users can now approve payments…
US lawmaker presses Amazon to drop facial recognition plan for Ring
Senator Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, is urging Amazon to…
Amazon’s quiet rise as a power broker in police surveillance
In 2023, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office tested a new surveillance tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that used…
Amazon releases identity and access management service for agentic AI
Want AI agents to work for you? You’ll need to manage them. Amazon has introduced Bedrock AgentCore Identity, a “comprehensive…
Alexa, sue Amazon: tech giant faces class action over voice recordings
Users of Amazon’s Alexa are clear to pursue a class action over allegedly illegal recordings of private conversations. In Seattle,…
