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 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 ...

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Amazon announced on Wednesday it was implementing a “one-year moratorium” on police use of Rekognition, its facial-recognition technology. Lawmakers and civil liberties groups have expressed growing ...

Amazon is temporarily halting the use of its controversial facial recognition technology in the wake of widespread protests against police violence and discrimination. The internet giant is starting a ...

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Amazon, which one year ago barred police from using its facial recognition software, is extending that moratorium indefinitely. The extension of the ban on police use of Amazon’s facial identification ...

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 ...

Amazon is extending its global ban on police use of its facial recognition software until further notice, the company said Tuesday, prolonging a one-year moratorium on a surveillance technology that ...