Orlando Police Abandon Trial of Amazon Rekognition
The Orlando Police Department is giving up on its trial deployment of Amazon’s Rekognition platform, once again ending its on again/off again relationship with…
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Amazon Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Recording Children with Alexa
Amazon is facing a potential class action lawsuit due to its recording policies with Alexa. According to a report in The Seattle Times, the lawsuit was filed…
BRIEF: The Legislative Pushback Against Biometric Facial Recognition
Apple’s introduction of the face-scanning Face ID system in 2017’s iPhone X went a long way in helping to make facial recognition for authentication a…
Amazon Requests Selfie Authentication from its Delivery Drivers
Amazon is hoping to raise accountability and reduce fraud with a new policy that requires Amazon Flex delivery drivers to take a selfie to confirm their…
Amazon Explains How Computer Vision Tech Can De-identify Medical Images
Thanks to improvements in digital imaging and data storage, medical archives are much larger than they’ve ever been. Researchers now have access to millions of…
Amazon Calling For Government Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
Amazon is now calling for government regulation of facial recognition technology, even as it defends sales of its own such technology to law enforcement…
MIT AI Policy Congress Convenes to Discuss AI and Ethics
The inaugural MIT AI Policy Congress recently convened in Massachusetts, bringing together leading researchers, industry insiders, and policy experts for a…
85 Advocacy Groups Call On Big Tech to Stop Selling Facial Recognition to Gov’t
“By targeting three of the world’s biggest tech companies, the letters could help to focus attention on the issue.” A coalition of 85 advocacy and activist…
Year in Review: The Biggest Biometric Modalities of 2018
The results are in for the latest FindBiometrics Year in Review Survey, with at least some of them confirming the biggest trends observed over the course of…
Amazon Patent Brings Biometric Surveillance to Your Front Door
A newly published patent application from Amazon outlines a smart doorbell designed to use facial recognition for a kind of technologically-enhanced…