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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
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 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… |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Has Amazon got a reality show for you! And you’re the camera operator.What if all the talk in the United States about one’s right to biometric privacy is limited to advocates, academics,… |
