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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
Canadian border agency launching immigration app with facial recognition, AWS tech
Canadian border authorities will launch an app this fall that will help them track people who have been ordered to…
| 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 24, 2024 | AWS says it’s keeping its word on cops’ use of Rekognition, docs differAmazon executives maintain that the company has kept its voluntary 2020 moratorium on selling facial recognition services to law enforcement… |
| Jun 18, 2024 | UK train stations trial Amazon emotion recognition on passengersAmazon-powered AI cameras are now being used to monitor and analyze passengers’ emotions by employing a combination of “smart” CCTV… |
| Jun 12, 2024 | AWS adds passkey MFA for root and IAM usersA blog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) says the company is adding passkeys to the list of supported multi-factor authentication… |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Amazon facial recognition used in Russia despite sanctions, says former employeeAmazon has supplied facial recognition technology to Russia despite UK sanctions on the country imposed after it invaded Ukraine, a… |
| Jun 5, 2024 | HID adds Amazon Rekognition support to biometric camera for enhanced facial imagingHID Global has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to enhance biometric face imaging capabilities by utilizing the Amazon Rekognition… |
| 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… |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Demystifying the relationship between commercial biometrics and privacyEach day, biometric payment systems and computer vision-based shopping experiences are popping up at more establishments throughout the world. But… |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Amazon’s One palm biometrics readers for businesses get a lukewarm introductionA contactless palm biometric service from Amazon reportedly is being adopted by a few organizations, one of which is an… |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Amazon loses dismissal bid in BIPA case, could face many more plaintiffsA 2019 biometric privacy lawsuit in the U.S. against Amazon has just gotten more significant. A U.S. district judge last… |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Amazon announces passkey rollout for biometric passwordless loginFollowing a quiet rollout last week, Amazon has now formally announced that it supports passkeys on browsers and the iOS… |
