“The public doesn’t have a way of controlling what information the government has on them. And now there’s this rapidly advancing technology, with very few guidelines and protections for people, putting all of this information ...
“We want Amazon’s board to oversee and disclose how Amazon is addressing the significant risks posed by the sale of facial recognition technology.” Amazon has recently faced pressure from its investors over the sale of ...
The FBI is employing a new method to catch criminals: Amazon’s facial recognition software known as Rekognition. Using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s relatively new facial recognition software, allows the FBI to expedite sifting through surveillance footage ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has installed facial recognition technology at the Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) in Silicon Valley. The technology is already being used to process international travelers entering and leaving ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemns Amazon’s facial recognition tool, Rekognition, as invasive and dangerous. Rekognition is powered by artificial intelligence. It is capable of identifying faces from photo databases with several millions of ...
According to a Sky News report, a recent carnival in Notting Hill was treated as a testing ground for police facial recognition systems. (Activist Post, Nicholas West) All things biometric are sweeping across the world ...