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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
Demystifying the relationship between commercial biometrics and privacy
Each 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… |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Israel is using Amazon Rekognition to locate missing and deadAmazon’s facial recognition system Rekognition is being used in Israel to locate missing and dead after a deadly attack by… |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Thales and SoyYo expand partnership for passkeys, reported problems for AmazonPasskeys have entered public consciousness as a way to replace password authentication with device biometrics or PINs, but the rollout… |
| Oct 11, 2023 | BBC uses facial recognition to identify terrorist as police officerIn the aftermath of a series of terrorist attacks against people in Israel, one media outlet attempted to identify perpetrators… |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Banks deploying biometrics for ever-wider range of remote and in-branch interactionsBanking is being reshaped by several forces, including digitization and online service delivery, and biometrics are vying for a major… |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Biometric payment adoption grows as Amazon lawsuits allege data privacy violationsBiometric payment systems – and privacy concerns surrounding those systems – are on the rise. Biometric payments could provide frictionless… |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Biometrics for payments, not tracking customers in Amazon Just Walk Out storesAmazon says the Just Walk Out store in the Seahawks’ Lumen Field NFL stadium launched last year is a rousing… |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Some big names sweated a hot summer with biometric privacy court casesIt’s a brand-name roundup of biometric information privacy lawsuits today, with Clearview AI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon battling in court… |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Use of synthetic data for training biometric systems on the riseImages generated by artificial intelligence have been spreading fast across the internet, sparking concerns about identity fraud, disinformation and more…. |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Amazon takes a small BIPA win; ID scan provider for weed store accusedBiometrics privacy cases in the U.S. state of Illinois continue to bubble to the surface. In the newest U.S. biometrics… |
| Jul 28, 2023 | PhD student uses deepfake to pass popular voice authentication and spoof detection systemUniversity of Waterloo (UW) cybersecurity PhD student Andre Kassis published his findings after being granted access to an account protected… |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Amazon settles suit over retention of kids’ voice dataThe U.S. Department of Justice says Amazon will pay a comparatively modest civil penalty for allegedly violating multiple laws and… |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Amazon One is coming to all Whole Foods storesNever mind cashless payments: Whole Foods customers who sign up for Amazon Web Service’s palm payment system can leave their… |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Researchers defeat voice biometric security by targeting common liveness approachesShortcomings in voice presentation attack detection are making it surprisingly easy to defeat biometric defenses. A pair of Canadian computer… |
| Jun 28, 2023 | It has been a bumpy ride of late in biometrics privacy and productsIt might be a slow start to summer for some business sectors in the U.S., but not for biometrics privacy…. |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Biometrics are moving the restaurant industry beyond cards and phonesIn an era of rapid technological advancements, biometric payment methods are emerging as a game-changer for the restaurant industry. Integrating… |
| Jun 22, 2023 | BIPA might be changing, but not soon enough for some class action defendantsRegulatory relief for biometrics-gathering companies in the U.S. state of Illinois didn’t arrive in the just-ending legislative session. There is… |
