Most people familiar with face-scanning software suite Amazon Rekognition, its place in the surveillance state, and its questionable efficacy are apt to fear what the consequences of such a technology ...

On Tuesday, Amazon said that the one-year ban on US police being permitted to use the facial recognition technology solution would continue to stand, as reported by The Washington Post. The previous ...

Reported by the New York Times, new tests of facial recognition technology suggest that Amazon’s system has more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces compared with ...

Amazon’s controversial Rekognition computer vision technology is now being used to rid food sites of surprise dick pics. Well, in one case anyway. The London-based food delivery service Deliveroo has ...

An Amazon sign is pictured at company headquarters on May 20, 2021, in Seattle. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) A Department of Justice disclosure that the FBI is in the “initiation” phase of ...

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) computer vision platform that was launched in 2016. It has been sold to and used by several United States government agencies as well ...

On a scale from one to Godzilla is coming!!! how scared are you of Amazon’s burgeoning, soon-to-be-ubiquitous object recognition software? Don’t lie about where you fall on the scale: Amazon’s AI now ...

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The attempted shareholder revolt against Amazon marketing its facial recognition technology to police and security services has failed. The attempt by more liberal minded share holders did not succeed ...

AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivers the keynote at the 2018 reInvent confrerence. (Amazon Web Services Photo) Amazon’s latest update to its Rekognition software is renewing an outcry from civil rights groups ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks with reporters at a reception following the company’s Alexa devices and services unveiling at the Amazon Spheres on Wednesday evening in Seattle, with Amazon executives Jay ...