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 ...

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Amazon (AMZN) investors voted on Wednesday to continue selling the company’s controversial facial recognition technology to governments and law enforcement agencies around the world. The vote, which ...

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.

UPDATE: Amazon reached out to clarify things. The company said the following: “We are denying the claim that we breached our ban on the police use of our facial recognition technology. The statement ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

An ex-employee has accused Amazon of breaching UK sanctions by selling facial recognition technology to Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine, The Financial Times reported. Charles Forrest alleged ...

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 ...

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), opens new tab on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work ...