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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
Biometric privacy cases churn on, but talk of legal reform gets louder
Amazon and beefery McDonald’s are separately involved in new class-action filings about their alleged violation of a U.S. state biometric…
| Apr 12, 2023 | Amazon’s palm biometrics rollout reaches Denver-area Whole FoodsDenver shoppers can pay at the checkout lane with a swipe of their hand using Amazon One’s palm recognition service…. |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Aware joins small but growing ranks of biometrics vendors on AWS MarketplaceAfter achieving security certification for SOC (System and Organization Control) 2 Type I for it cloud-based adaptive authentication platform, Aware… |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Panera deploys Amazon One palm biometrics to facilitate payments, loyalty programAmerican bakery company Panera has added the Amazon One palm vein biometrics solution to its MyPanera loyalty program to facilitate… |
| Mar 20, 2023 | New Amazon biometric-scan cases in media-saturated NYC could add to tech oppositionAmazon is fighting two new federal biometric privacy lawsuits involving its Go physical stores, both of which were filed in… |
| Jan 26, 2023 | US privacy law catches insurer and Amazon; settlement nears in another caseThe biometric privacy protection law in the U.S. state of Illinois continues to churn though challenges. A United States district… |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Amazon told to stay put in court; Microsoft might escape BIPA caseThere is greater clarity today regarding a key provision of the state of Illinois’ biometric privacy law, landmark legislation in… |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Daon and Entrust each add digital ID solutions to AWS marketplaceTwo companies in the digital identity space have recently announced the availability of their solutions on the Amazon Web Services… |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Ring keeps pushing the boundaries for facial recognition in US policingWatching the New York Police Department’s expansion into facial recognition technology and practices is like witnessing someone who is not… |
| Dec 2, 2022 | Amazon rolling out ‘AI Service Cards’ for transparency on facial recognition limitationsAmazon’s cloud-computing division will roll out warnings for software in its online marketplace to tackle artificial intelligence (AI) and biometric… |
| Nov 22, 2022 | Times are getting tight for Amazon’s Alexa and Echo voice biometrics linesWill voice recognition become an afterthought at Amazon? Business Insider has published a lengthy piece outlining how Amazon is cutting… |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Selfie biometrics boom in fintech with new implementations, partnershipsSelfie biometrics are expanding in several markets, with a new implementation from Amazon, partnerships for Veriff, Sumsub and IDScan.net, and… |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Amazon claims to cut facial recognition bias with unlabeled dataAmazon Web Services has unveiled a method to evaluate bias in facial recognition algorithms without using annotated identity labels. A… |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Microsoft, Amazon granted summary judgement in biometric data privacy lawsuitsA Washington federal judge on Monday dismissed two putative class actions by Chicago residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk, accusing… |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Palm biometric payments grow with launch on WeChat, Amazon One expansionTencent’s super-app WeChat has added a new “Palm Payment” applet to enable users to pay using palm biometrics, Tech Planet… |
| Oct 4, 2022 | People are getting an uneasy feeling about Amazon’s AstroA wheeled, facial recognition-armed robot being sold as a security dog, a family member and a pet monitor is being… |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Cerence develops Knight Rider-style voice biometric interactions for carsInnovative biometric technology is on the road, as several auto manufacturers roll out new features that use facial recognition, radar,… |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Tactile launches new palm biometrics scanner; market forecast above $530M by 2027Several companies and governmental institutions have announced updates regarding palm biometrics solutions, with Tactile Technologies signing a distribution deal for… |
| Sep 12, 2022 | $1.2B Israel defense cloud contract includes face detection; Google, Amazon workers protestHundreds of workers and their supporters gathered outside Google and Amazon offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Durham,… |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Snap settles case for $35M as BIPA trips up Amazon and adult entertainment purveyorsSnap (parent of Snapchat) has agreed to settle a biometric data privacy complaint with a class of Illinois users for… |
