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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Its easy-to-use Rekognition API allows you to automatically identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Developers can quickly build a searchable content library to optimize media workflows, enrich recommendation engines by extracting text in images, or integrate secondary authentication into existing applications to enhance end-user security. With a wide variety of use cases, Amazon Rekognition enables you to easily add the benefits of computer vision to your business.
Amazon Biometrics News
US DoD will consider migrating biometric databases to cloud providers other than AWS
The U.S. Department of Defence has amended its solicitation for a migration of its biometric databases to the cloud, clarifying…
| Nov 26, 2020 | AWS Single Sign-On now supports WebAuthn multi-factor authentication tools like YubiKeysSupport for Yubico in the AWS environment has been expanded with the introduction of native WebAuthn support for AWS Single Sign-On… |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Amazon moving facial recognition and voice processing off of Nvidia chipsAmazon is switching to using its own custom chips to provide the cloud processing for its Alexa voice assistant service… |
| Oct 21, 2020 | US plans voice biometrics upgrade and shift to cloud for DoD Automated Biometric Identification SystemThe U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) intends to move the remaining on-premise elements of its Automated Biometric Identification System to… |
| Oct 20, 2020 | Biometric privacy lawsuit against Amazon and Pindrop refiled in federal courtA biometric data privacy lawsuit alleging that Amazon and Pindrop failed to meet the informed consent requirements of the Biometric Information Privacy… |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Biometric privacy suit targets Amazon’s COVID-19 screeningEmployee COVID-19 screening measures by Amazon use biometrics without satisfying the legal requirements of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA),… |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Amazon aims to improve biometric features and privacy with new edge AI chip in Echo devicesA new processor in Amazon’s latest generation of Echo devices are giving the Alexa assistant intriguing capabilities that the company… |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Amazon launches contactless palm biometrics for retail, access control marketsAmazon is launching its palmprint biometrics for contactless payments, access control and more, according to a company blog post, under… |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Biometric privacy claim against Pindrop and Amazon dismissed for lack of jurisdictionAmazon and Pindrop did not violate biometric privacy law in Illinois by capturing data for voice recognition from people when… |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Amazon and Microsoft move for dismissal of biometric privacy suit, arguing no jurisdiction for training dataIllinois’ biometric privacy law does not apply to conduct out of state and therefore suits against Amazon and Microsoft over… |
| Sep 11, 2020 | StoneLock GM discusses privacy features in biometric property technology as market heats upThe market for face biometrics as part of “property technology” or “proptech” is heating up, with new solutions, deployments, and… |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Biometrics at home – how smart will the smart home get?Rapid advancements in chip designs along with algorithms for biometric voice and facial recognition are expanding the boundaries of what… |
| Jul 15, 2020 | Facial biometrics training dataset leads to BIPA lawsuits against Amazon, Alphabet and MicrosoftDespite being conceived of as a way to make biometric facial recognition more equitable, IBM’s Diversity in Faces is continuing… |
| Jun 22, 2020 | AWS and Pindrop named in voice biometric data privacy lawsuit as cases test liability limitsPlaintiffs in a biometric data privacy suit say Amazon Web Services’ call center operations fall under the jurisdiction of state… |
| Jun 18, 2020 | U.S. Congress member welcomes AWS’s facial recognition moratorium, demands further explanationsU.S. Member of Congress Jimmy Gomez has written a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos applauding the decision to implement… |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Some surprising questions, fewer insights after Deepfake Detection ChallengeFew if any unique or actionable insights have resulted from a lengthy contest created by Facebook to defang deepfake content,… |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Amazon pauses sale of facial biometrics to police while advocates push Microsoft and Ring to followAmazon has put a one-year moratorium on direct sales of its biometric facial recognition service to law enforcement to allow for… |
| May 28, 2020 | Facial biometrics study suggests Amazon performance unchanged as Microsoft launches antibias toolComparitech has released a report on biometric bias in Amazon’s facial recognition offering, similar to previous reports from the ACLU comparing… |
| May 21, 2020 | Amazon launches low-key campaign to derail Portland face-scanning lawIndependent news reporting indicates that Amazon is spending money to defeat proposed Portland, Oregon legislation that would ban all use… |
| May 7, 2020 | DHS’s biometric advanced recognition technology system begins road to the cloudThe Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System (HART), which is replacing DHS’s legacy Automated Biometric Identification… |
