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 ...

On a hot summer day in 2017, at a defense technology summit hosted by the publication Defense One, Amazon Web Services (AWS) set up a booth. Flanked by notable defense contractors such as Lockheed ...

Most people familiar with face-scanning software suite Amazon Rekognition, its place in the surveillance state, and its questionable efficacy are apt to fear what the consequences of such a technology ...

Amazon Web Services’ facial recognition technology, Rekognition, can now detect fear. At least, that’s according to Amazon — but given that the tech has been proven inaccurate again and again, it’s ...

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 ...

Phil Ting doesn’t have a criminal record. Yet the California State Assemblyman is one of 26 lawmakers falsely matched to a mugshot in Amazon Rekognition’s public 25,000-photo database, the American ...

The undersigned coalition of organizations are dedicated to protecting civil rights and liberties and safeguarding communities. We write today to express our profound concerns about your company’s ...

Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s deep learning-powered image detection and recognition service, is getting a little bit smarter today. Amazon says the service can now recognize hundred of thousands of ...

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 ...