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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

 

US feds to biometrics collectors: Knock it off. We mean it

United States regulators have taken time to, in a local figure of speech, brush businesses that deal in biometric data…

Jun 12, 2023

New Yorkers sue Amazon, Starbucks over biometrics use in cashierless stores

Amazon and coffee retailer Starbucks are being sued in U.S. federal district court for misusing customers’ biometric identifiers. The proposed…

Jun 1, 2023

US states closely watching federal rule changes on biometrics

Amazon lost two notable biometrics arguments with a U.S. regulator this week, but they are miniscule compared to analyses that…

May 25, 2023

Amazon immune to BIPA this time, biometric privacy suit filed against PimEyes

A federal judge in the U.S. state of Illinois has dismissed a class action under the Biometric Information Privacy Act…

May 23, 2023

Palm ID verifies in US for alcohol buys and in Beijing for subway rides

One, Amazon’s palm biometric payment service, has a new age-verification function. An adult will be able to buy alcohol by…

May 17, 2023

Palm and face biometric payments see more rollouts, plus a lawsuit in New York

Music fans attending Michigan’s Pine Knob music festival will be able to use biometric technology to get their drinks faster,…

May 11, 2023

Amazon’s retail biometrics gain footholds but automated store concept struggles

Amazon is said not to have found sufficient uptake of its ‘Just Walk Out’ technology by physical retail stores compared…

Apr 26, 2023

4 biometric data privacy lawsuits not sufficient to prove corporate wrongdoing

Four lawsuits filed against Amazon under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act do not constitute a credible basis for accusations of…

Apr 21, 2023

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 Foods

Denver 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 Marketplace

After 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 program

American 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 opposition

Amazon 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 case

The 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 case

There 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 marketplace

Two 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 policing

Watching 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 limitations

Amazon’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 lines

Will 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, partnerships

Selfie biometrics are expanding in several markets, with a new implementation from Amazon, partnerships for Veriff, Sumsub and IDScan.net, and…

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