The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said Thursday that in its new test of Amazon’s facial recognition system known as Rekognition, the software erroneously identified 28 members ...

A group of congressional Democrats has sent yet another letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demanding answers on whether the company’s facial recognition technology Rekognition is utilizing appropriate ...

YOU ARE NOT A MATCH. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just spent $12.33 to test a system that could quite literally cost people their lives. On Thursday, the nonprofit organization, which ...

A recently released study by researchers at the MIT Media Lab tested Amazon Rekognition’s “facial analysis” tool on photos of men and women with a range of lighter and darker skin tones and found that ...

As part of the tech giant’s efforts in healthcare, Amazon is pitching its Amazon Rekognition image and video analysis service as a way more effectively de-identify and utilize medical images. The ...

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’s facial Rekognition software, a brand which is being tested in Orlando as a surveillance system, misidentifies darker-skinned women as men roughly a third of the time, according to a new study ...

Amazon Web Services’ facial recognition technology, Rekognition, can now detect fear. At least, that’s according to Amazon — but given that the tech has been proven inaccurate again and again, it’s ...

Follow GeekWire’s coverage of AWS re:Invent 2019, as Amazon announces new cloud products, partnerships and technology initiatives. by Monica Nickelsburg on Nov 25, 2019 at 10:57 am December 2, 2019 at ...

In a surprise blog post, Amazon said it will put the brakes on providing its facial recognition technology to police for one year, but refuses to say if the move applies to federal law enforcement ...