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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
Amazon to end support for voice biometrics, recommends Pindrop
Amazon is ending support for its voice biometric offering Amazon Connect Voice ID. Launched in 2021, Amazon Connect Voice ID…
| Mar 20, 2025 | Documents aim to lay out use cases, standards for mobile driver’s licensesThe Secure Technology Alliance’s (STA) Identity and Access Forum has released a new resource on mobile driver’s license (mDL) use… |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Reusable digital ID promises improved customer experienceA new Reusable Digital ID Network partnership to serve UK financial services providers has been announced by Select ID, SQR,… |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Passkeys see continued pickup by major tech names including Microsoft, AmazonThe long, slow death of the password continues, as major firms standardize stronger authentication measures to become more cyber-resilient and… |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Vendors make their case why biometrics and the healthcare sector go togetherCompanies such as Amazon have been introducing biometric authentication systems into the healthcare sector, adapting its Amazon One palm biometrics… |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Amazon expands its palm biometric payment to healthcareAmazon is one of the major companies to introduce palm biometric payment and the e-commerce giant is now expanding the… |
| Feb 5, 2025 | Amazon can’t block BIPA voice biometrics case even though federal case failedA federal judge in Delaware will not block a lawsuit filed in Illinois state court against Amazon Web Services (AWS),… |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Daon brings biometrics, deepfake detection to AWS ISV Accelerate programDaon is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate program to grow the market reach of… |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Amazon is ready to use digital identity, even though its hardRemote digital identity proofing is in the midst of a dramatic upheaval, but the change is not proceeding quickly. A… |
| Oct 14, 2024 | Voice biometrics gain momentum in India’s financial sectorIndia is stepping into the future with voice biometrics, an authentication method that promises enhanced security and user convenience. Voice… |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Ideal authentication solution boils down to using best tools to stop attacksAuthentication: why do we do it? The conversation about authentication often centers on technologies, devices, methods and user experience. Biometrics… |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Biometric data privacy lawsuit against Amazon, Starbucks mostly thrown outA lawsuit against a pair of retail titans in New York City over alleged violations of biometric data protection rules… |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Palm payments more accessible with pickup from Mastercard, Amazon appMajor financial players have lauded the potential of palm payments, China has explored palm biometrics for transit, and major sports… |
| Apr 29, 2024 | DHS forms new board to advise on AI deployments in critical infrastructureThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formed an AI Safety and Security Board, bringing together leaders from government,… |
| Apr 24, 2024 | T-Mobile, Amazon, and Target hit with facial recognition lawsuitsMore companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New… |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Judge allows voice biometrics data privacy lawsuit against Amazon to add plaintiffsA federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who want to amend their lawsuit against Amazon over alleged violations of Illinois’… |
| Mar 29, 2024 | Retail biometrics roll outs expand to bodegas and enrollment appRetail biometrics are growing rapidly, but stakeholder consultation, testing, and policy development must be prioritized to guard against the technology’s… |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Tesla settles privacy case while Amazon and Facebook are frozen in place with theirsOf three recent turns in U.S. biometric privacy lawsuits, only one, a settlement, has much to do with privacy itself…. |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Amazon of 2 minds with law enforcement deals – fleeing locally, selling federallyThis week brought news that Amazon, on the one hand, appears to be selling AI services to the FBI, and… |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Verified in Vegas: biometrics on display at world’s largest tech conferenceCES 2024 takes over the Las Vegas Convention Center and Venetian Hotel this week until January 12, and AI is… |
