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… Read More
After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy said Monday evening that he is open to federal regulation… Read More
A group of artificial intelligence researchers — including this year’s winner of the Turing Award — issued a joint statement Wednesday calling on Amazon Web Services to stop all sales… Read More
Amazon Web Services released new capabilities for its Rekognition image and video analysis service Friday that will allow companies trying to sort through massive numbers of images to zero in… Read More
Amazon Web Services pitched the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on using its Rekognition video analysis service, which it claims can identify faces in surveillance videos, according to documents… Read More
More than 450 Amazon employees have now signed a letter originally addressed to CEO Jeff Bezos and other senior executives in June asking Amazon Web Services to stop selling its… Read More
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Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services added several new items to its suite of machine-learning driven services Wednesday at AWS re:Invent 2017, including the extension of its Amazon Rekognition image-detection… Read More