You Searched For "Rekognition" and got 20 results
Sort By:
The ACLU says Amazon's 1-year suspension on selling facial recognition to law enforcement falls short and it wants a longer ban
AI experts and civil rights activists have been campaigning for Amazon to halt the sale of Rekognit…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
IBM wins praise for halting sales of its facial recognition tech, but experts say it may have left itself a loophole
IBM has promised to stop selling "general purpose" software, but this leaves it wiggle-room to keep…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
Amazon workers slammed the company for supporting the George Floyd protesters while still flogging surveillance tech to police
An activist employee group challenged the company, tweeting: "Which police contracts have you cut? …
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
Amazon extends ban on police using its controversial facial-recognition software indefinitely
Amazon suspended sales of its facial-recognition technology in June following widespread protests a…
Kate Duffy  Â
Amazon's new $1,000 home-patrolling robot is flawed and could fall down stairs, report says
Astro "will almost certainly throw itself down a flight of stairs," one source told Vice. Amazon di…
Isobel Asher Hamilton  Â
Amazon just announced that it's going to suspend police use of its controversial facial-recognition technology for one year
Police departments across the country use Amazon Web Services' Rekognition, and studies have shown …
Rosalie Chan  Â
Facebook's deceptive announcement about an end to their use of facial recognition technology is a reminder that lawmakers need to crack down on invasive tech
Facebook could still use facial recognition technology on its other platforms - a reminder that Con…
Kate Ruane  Â
Patriots player Duron Harmon is speaking out after Amazon's facial-recognition tech falsely matched him to a mugshot
Critics of Amazon Rekognition also say the software could promulgate racial bias, especially if use…
Aaron Holmes  Â
Bernie Sanders wants to completely ban cops using facial recognition tech from firms like Amazon
Apart from any inherent flaws in the software, numerous reports have emerged of police forces strug…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …  Â
Inside Amazon's battle to kill an unprecedented shareholder revolt over facial recognition
Amazon launched Rekognition in 2016 and it is used to analyse images or videos to identify people o…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter  Â
Amazon is launching new industrial AI tools to help companies monitor productivity and worker safety
Amazon announced a suite of industrial tools that use machine learning to predict equipment failure…
Tyler Sonnemaker  Â
Amazon adds fear detection and age ranges to its facial-recognition tech as the Border Patrol looks to award a $950 million contract
Today, we are launching accuracy and functionality improvements to our face analysis features. Face…
Julie Bort  Â
Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are under pressure to follow Google and drop gender labels like 'man' and 'woman' from their AI
Costanza-Chock added that "binary" gender classifications were more likely to harm trans people and…
Shona Ghosh  Â
Amazon wants Congress to regulate its facial-recognition technology, but with laws it drafted
"It's a welcome sign that Amazon is finally acknowledging the dangers of face surveillance. But we'…
Aaron Holmes  Â
Artificial intelligence experts from Facebook, Google, and Microsoft called on Amazon not to sell its facial recognition software to police
The signatories point out that, according to the study, Amazon had an error rate of approximately 3…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …  Â
AOC called out Amazon for posting a 'bland statement' supporting George Floyd protesters while maintaining contracts with police
Amazon published a statement Friday that decried the "inequitable and brutal treatment of Black peo…
Aaron Holmes  Â
Microsoft won't sell facial recognition tech to police: President Brad Smith
San Francisco, June 11 (IANS) After IBM and Amazon, Microsoft President Brad Smith who is known as …
A US police force is running suspect sketches through Amazon's facial recognition tech and potentially framing innocent people
Amazon told the Post that using sketches doesn't contravene its rules, but said that it would expec…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …  Â
Microsoft will not sell facial recognition to American police departments until there is a national law 'grounded in human rights,' President Brad Smith says
Brad Smith says Microsoft does not sell facial recognition to US police departments, and won't unle…
Ashley Stewart  Â
Amazon bans police use of its face recognition tech for 1 year
Seattle, June 11 (IANS) Amazon has announced to apply the brakes on its facial recognition technolo…