Amazon Ring patents hint at biometric surveillance capabilities
A series of 17 patents granted to Amazon for its Ring products over the last two years seems to suggest…
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Turing Video, Amazon among latest biometric data privacy lawsuit targets
Turing Video has been named in the lawsuit of a customer’s employee, which alleges violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy…
Amazon sends thousands of US drivers biometric monitoring consent forms, says sign it or lose job
Drivers for Amazon across the United States are being given consent forms to be monitored with face biometrics within their…
Lawsuit alleges Apple biometrics infringe patents, claims against Amazon sent to arbitration
Apple is being sued in a patent dispute by Gesture Technology Partners for allegedly violating five patents related to mobile…
Amazon pauses sale of facial biometrics to police while advocates push Microsoft and Ring to follow
Amazon has put a one-year moratorium on direct sales of its biometric facial recognition service to law enforcement to allow for…
Amazon trialing biometric hand geometry payment, Ring may be developing facial recognition
Ring Ukraine is developing facial recognition technology, although the Amazon-owned Ring does not currently use it, BuzzFeed News reports. The…
Amazon patents “surveillance-as-a-service” as critics express concerns with Ring footage sharing
Amazon has patented “Surveillance-as-a-Service” technology based on drones with photographic, video, infrared, thermal, night-vision, and audio capabilities, Smart Cities Dive…
Amazon patent describes speech recognition prior to hearing Alexa wakeword
Rather than listen for a “wakeword,” a new patent application from Amazon suggests Alexa could simply record all speech, allowing…
BIO-key bringing its biometric bike lock to U.S. via Amazon
BIO-key will debut its fingerprint-based biometric and Bluetooth-enabled bicycle lock, TouchLock Bike, in the United States through Amazon.com before making…
Plurilock biometrics secure Amazon WorkSpaces; $1.4M in sales for subsidiary
Plurilock’s zero-trust cybersecurity solution with biometrics will be available for Amazon WorkSpaces virtual sessions, the company said. It also confirmed…
