Thousands of train travelers in the UK had their faces scanned by Amazon’s AI software during widespread trials over the past two years, according to a Wired investigation. The computer […]

An ex-employee of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Charles Forrest, has accused the company of violating UK sanctions by providing facial recognition technology to Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. Forrest […]

The UK government will focus on supporting niche manufacturing and designs in its efforts to become a major player in computer chips, according to the country’s tech minister. Paul Scully […]

What are the Project Nimbus protests really about? Earlier this month, employees of Google and Amazon took to the streets to protest their employers’ work with the Israeli government through […]

Amid intense media scrutiny, the Treasury Department is reconsidering its use of ID.me’s biometric technology to verify the identities of individuals filing their taxes online. According to a new report […]

A group of activist investors is trying to hold Amazon to account for some of the problems with its Rekognition facial recognition system. To that end, the investors are planning […]

Amazon is doubling down on its decision to stop selling its Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The company halted Rekognition sales to the police last June, in […]

A team of South Korean researchers has published a study that suggests that some of the world’s leading facial recognition APIs may be far more vulnerable to deepfakes than previously […]

“Amazon claims that its system can be used to train an AI to detect an object using as few as 1- images, as opposed to the hundreds or thousands that […]

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 the tech giant. The facial recognition […]