U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield isn’t a crook, but a facial-recognition system Amazon is marketing to police and other groups seems to think he is. Butterfield, the 71-year-old Wilson Democrat who ...

Amazon Rekognition is based on highly scalable, deep learning technology, as developed by Amazon’s computer vision scientists. The system is used to analyze billions of images and videos daily.

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The Department of Justice has disclosed that the FBI is in the “initiation” phase of using Amazon Rekognition, an image and video analysis software that has sparked controversy for its facial ...

Atlas of Surveillance volunteers gather police use data including drones, automated license plate readers, and facial ...

It’s time for Amazon to head back to the drawing board. The mega company headed by world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has been busy developing recognition software that could be used for surveillance, ...

The group says the facial recognition software falsely spotted 28 members of the House and Senate in a mugshot database, with a higher rate of false matches for people of color.

Amazon is adding facial recognition capabilities to its Ring devices — but not everyone’s smiling about its new “familiar faces” feature. According to an Oct. 3 report from The Washington Post, Amazon ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Tech giants say they will not sell facial recognition software to police departments, for now. It's a tool police departments have been using for years, helping solve everything ...