ACLU calls out Amazon biometrics in fight to ban facial recognition
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU) has used Amazon Rekognition facial recognition to match one in five…
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Oregon police using Amazon facial biometrics with suspect sketches and dead bodies
Police in Washington County, Oregon have used facial biometrics technology in attempts to identify dead bodies, unconscious suspects, people who…
Amazon launches accuracy enhancements to face analysis features of Rekognition
Amazon announced that it is launching accuracy enhancements to the face analysis feature of Rekognition. This is the fifth model…
Amazon finds zero false positives in Rekognition testing and takes issue with bias report
Accusations that Amazon provides inaccurate facial biometric technology and lacks appropriate concern over the ethical and social concerns about facial…
FBI trialing Amazon facial biometrics for video processing
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is piloting Amazon Rekognition to sort the enormous volumes of video footage it…
Amazon executive defends facial recognition and says company advising government on regulations
Amazon is educating government officials about its Rekognition facial biometric service, and how the technology should be regulated, Amazon Web…
Amazon provides facial recognition for new platform to locate missing children
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) has announced the launch of a new global platform, dubbed GMCNgine,…
Amazon facial recognition technology accelerates trafficking investigations
Child exploitation prevention organization Thorn has sped up its investigation time by 65 percent using Amazon’s Rekognition and other AWS…
Amazon dismisses ACLU criticism of its facial recognition technology with totally different test results
Amazon has responded to a recent blog post by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in which it matched the…
SensibleVision CEO George Brostoff criticizes Microsoft call for facial recognition regulation
The specific modality being used is not the most appropriate criteria for applying government regulation to biometrics, according to a…
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