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 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Civil Liberties Union published a bombshell report Thursday outlining evidence that Amazon’s Rekognition, a face ...

A failed bid to halt sales of Rekognition, Amazon’s controversial facial recognition software, is the most recent in a string of high-profile controversies surrounding the new surveillance technology.

Humphrey Chen, who was an Amazon Rekognition product management leader, has joined video advertising company VidMob. VidMob's technology helps brands create digital video ads for social platforms like ...

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, 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 will have to let shareholders vote on proposals to curb sales of its controversial facial recognition product, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a letter to the company this week.

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 ...