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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 storesAmazon 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 biometricsAmazon 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 PimEyesA 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 ridesOne, 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 YorkMusic 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 strugglesAmazon 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 wrongdoingFour 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 louderAmazon 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… |
