Articles about Amazon Rekognition

Amazon extends ban on police use of Rekognition facial recognition technology

Amazon, which one year ago barred police from using its facial recognition software, is extending that moratorium indefinitely. The extension… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology

After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More

Top AI researchers call on Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

A group of artificial intelligence researchers — including this year’s winner of the Turing Award — issued a joint statement… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition image analysis tool can now locate objects within a photo

Amazon Web Services released new capabilities for its Rekognition image and video analysis service Friday that will allow companies trying… Read More

Amazon Web Services pitched ICE on using its Rekognition face-recognition cloud service

Amazon Web Services pitched the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on using its Rekognition video analysis service, which it… Read More

Anonymous employee calls on Amazon Web Services to stop selling face-recognition technology to police departments

More than 450 Amazon employees have now signed a letter originally addressed to CEO Jeff Bezos and other senior executives… Read More

TLDR: Howard Schultz steps down as Starbucks chair, the state of bike share, new White House app uses Amazon Rekognition

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

‘Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse’: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to local governments

Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil… Read More

New machine-learning services from Amazon Web Services include video recognition, transcription

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services added several new items to its suite of machine-learning driven services Wednesday at AWS… Read More