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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.
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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…
| May 13, 2019 | Amazon patent filing describes computer vision parcel theft protection system for smart home devicesAmazon has invented a system for detecting and recording package theft and alerting homeowners, based on smart home devices such… |
| May 7, 2019 | UK Home Office rumored to push AWS as host of combined biometrics databaseThe UK Home Office is considering bids from several companies for its combined database of biometrics from police and immigration… |
| May 3, 2019 | Oregon police using Amazon facial biometrics with suspect sketches and dead bodiesPolice in Washington County, Oregon have used facial biometrics technology in attempts to identify dead bodies, unconscious suspects, people who… |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Amazon secures delivery contractor accounts with biometric facial verificationDelivery drivers for Amazon Flex are new required by the company to verify their identity by taking a selfie for… |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Group of researchers calls for Amazon to stop selling biometric Rekognition to law enforcementA group of 26 “concerned researchers” have called for Amazon to stop providing its biometric Rekognition service to law enforcement… |
| Apr 2, 2019 | SEC ruling sets up potential legal clash between Amazon and shareholders over biometric salesThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled that an Amazon shareholder’s proposal to release more information about the… |
| Apr 1, 2019 | Tech giants and civil society seek to institutionalize AI ethicsAs artificial intelligence becomes more controversial, tech giants are putting together councils and review processes to ensure ethical uses of… |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Amazon develops technology for removing identifying information from medical imagesAmazon has developed a way to de-identify medical images to assist healthcare professionals with meeting their HIPAA requirements by applying… |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Amazon launches accuracy enhancements to face analysis features of RekognitionAmazon announced that it is launching accuracy enhancements to the face analysis feature of Rekognition. This is the fifth model… |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Facial recognition mostly used by Washington County police to investigate minor crimesPolice with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) have cracked a $12 shoplifting case using state-of-the-art biometric facial recognition, CNET… |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Little overlap between NIST facial recognition testing leaders and U.S. government providersWired is asking “Why Chinese Companies Plug a U.S. Test for Facial Recognition” in an article highlighting the placement of… |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Amazon patents describe biometric user authentication and video tracking systemA pair of patent applications from Amazon apply the company’s facial recognition technology to user authentication and extend the tracking… |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Amazon proposes guidelines for responsible use of facial recognitionAmazon has weighed in on facial recognition legislation in a blog post, calling for the creation of a national legislative… |
| Feb 5, 2019 | Partnership could soon give Florida police access to residential cameras with facial recognitionThe Tampa-area Hernando County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with Amazon-owned security camera maker Ring to enable area residents to upload… |
| Feb 4, 2019 | Buolamwini responds to Amazon as police admit facial recognition recommendations not followedMIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini has responded to criticisms of her study on algorithmic bias in services offered by… |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Amazon finds zero false positives in Rekognition testing and takes issue with bias reportAccusations that Amazon provides inaccurate facial biometric technology and lacks appropriate concern over the ethical and social concerns about facial… |
| Jan 21, 2019 | Amazon files patent for replay attack detection method to protect voice authenticationA patent filed by Amazon for a replay attack detection technology for biometric voice authentication systems has been published by… |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Amazon shareholder proposal requests civil rights review before selling facial recognition techA shareholder proposal organized by corporate activist non-profit Open MIC asks that Amazon halt its sales of facial recognition technology… |
| Jan 16, 2019 | Large coalition of groups calls on tech giants to commit to no facial biometrics for governmentA coalition of more than 85 advocacy groups has written Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to ask them not to provide… |
