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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 extends police facial recognition moratorium
Amazon has taken the time limit off of its self-imposed moratorium on offering its face biometrics technology to U.S. law…
| Apr 27, 2021 | Amazon continues to fight hard to send biometric privacy cases to arbitrationA federal appellate court has affirmed that Amazon cannot impose arbitration on minors wanting to be part of proposed class-action… |
| Apr 22, 2021 | Biometrics for retail payments rolled out by Amazon, Sberbank, FPCAmazon is bringing its palm biometric payment system to Whole Foods stores, according to a report by CNBC. Amazon One was… |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Microsoft wins partial dismissal of biometric data privacy suit, Amazon goes 0-for-2A biometric data privacy lawsuit against Microsoft and Amazon can go forward, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled, though… |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Amazon sends thousands of US drivers biometric monitoring consent forms, says sign it or lose jobDrivers for Amazon across the United States are being given consent forms to be monitored with face biometrics within their… |
| Mar 18, 2021 | Biometric training data privacy suit to go ahead, but Microsoft and Amazon win partial dismissalA pair of biometric data privacy suits, filed against Microsoft and Amazon, will go ahead after a federal judge in… |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Upgraded Auraya voice biometrics now available for AWS contact center customersAuraya has made its EVA Voice Biometrics 2.0 available on the AWS Marketplace to provide secure and frictionless identification for… |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Aware, FacePhi, Nice honored for biometric authentication and fraud-prevention solutionsAware, FacePhi, and Nice have been honored for their innovative and user-friendly biometric solutions as the U.S. National Science Foundation… |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Dahua biometrics controversy draws scrutiny of Amazon’s $10M thermal cameras purchaseThe fallout of the recent revelation that Dahua developed biometrics specifically to identify Uyghurs for Chinese authorities has begun, with U.S…. |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Lawsuit alleges Apple biometrics infringe patents, claims against Amazon sent to arbitrationApple is being sued in a patent dispute by Gesture Technology Partners for allegedly violating five patents related to mobile… |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Short Amazon’s facial recognition ban. Go long on selling Rekognition to cops againIn a spacious corner office at Amazon sits a man at a desk with a finger over a button. When… |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Contactless retail biometrics expanded and contact center voice authentication launched by AmazonCustomers will soon be able to check into all Seattle Amazon Go stores using only their palm scan. Amazon is… |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Soft market conditions hit biometrics revenues but fundraising, deals foreshadow expected bounceEarnings reports by publicly-traded companies that provide biometrics are showing some effect from the generalized financial turmoil of the pandemic…. |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Elenium, Idemia bring biometrics to AWS Competency programs for travel and disaster responseElenium Automation is among the partners recognized for the new AWS Travel and Hospitality Competency announced at the company’s AWS re:Invent,… |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Amazon introduces voice biometrics for call centers, edge computer visionAmazon has revealed a new voice recognition tool built into its suite of call-center services for businesses to shorten call… |
| Nov 26, 2020 | US DoD will consider migrating biometric databases to cloud providers other than AWSThe U.S. Department of Defence has amended its solicitation for a migration of its biometric databases to the cloud, clarifying… |
| Nov 26, 2020 | AWS Single Sign-On now supports WebAuthn multi-factor authentication tools like YubiKeysSupport for Yubico in the AWS environment has been expanded with the introduction of native WebAuthn support for AWS Single Sign-On… |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Amazon moving facial recognition and voice processing off of Nvidia chipsAmazon is switching to using its own custom chips to provide the cloud processing for its Alexa voice assistant service… |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Growth in biometric cards in banking and retail spurred by COVID-19Contactless biometric applications are on the rise due to the pandemic effect, Idex Biometrics reports in a blog post. Writing… |
| Oct 21, 2020 | US plans voice biometrics upgrade and shift to cloud for DoD Automated Biometric Identification SystemThe U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) intends to move the remaining on-premise elements of its Automated Biometric Identification System to… |
