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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 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…
| Feb 19, 2026 | Ring expands ‘Search Party’ function from lost dogs to broader surveillanceThe Ring home security ecosystem is at the center of a privacy and surveillance debate after internal communications, a controversial… |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Ring and Flock call off integration as scrutiny of camera-to-police partnership intensifiesAmazon-owned Ring and Flock Safety have canceled their planned partnership, stepping back from an integration that would have linked one… |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Ring Super Bowl ad sparks backlash over AI camera surveillanceA Super Bowl commercial for Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera triggered swift backlash, with critics arguing that the company used an… |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Amazon bids farewell to palm biometrics, discontinues Amazon One for retailAmazon has announced it will discontinue the use of its Amazon One palm biometric payment system across retail businesses. Amazon… |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Amazon Pay adds biometrics to UPI payment options in IndiaAmazon Pay has rolled out biometric authentication for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India. Users can now approve payments… |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Ring faces new scrutiny as lawmaker warns of biometric surveillance crisisU.S. Senator Edward J. Markey’s long-running probe into Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell system reached a new boiling point this week… |
| Oct 31, 2025 | US lawmaker presses Amazon to drop facial recognition plan for RingSenator Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, is urging Amazon to… |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Ring’s partnership with Flock raises privacy alarmsAmazon’s home-security subsidiary Ring is joining forces with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based maker of automated license-plate readers (ALPR) and networked… |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Amazon’s quiet rise as a power broker in police surveillanceIn 2023, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office tested a new surveillance tool from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that used… |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Alexa, sue Amazon: tech giant faces class action over voice recordingsUsers of Amazon’s Alexa are clear to pursue a class action over allegedly illegal recordings of private conversations. In Seattle,… |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Amazon to end support for voice biometrics, recommends PindropAmazon 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… |
