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 ...

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 ...

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Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The FBI is piloting Amazon’s facial matching software—Amazon Rekognition—as a means to sift through mountains of video surveillance ...

Amazon has quietly been pushing its Rekognition AI system to police departments, using the deep learning technology to power real-time facial recognition. The company has already deployed ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Taylor Soper on Nov 30, 2016 at 10:40 am December 1, 2016 at ...

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) computer vision platform that was launched in 2016. It has been sold to and used by several United States government agencies as well ...

On Tuesday, Amazon said that the one-year ban on US police being permitted to use the facial recognition technology solution would continue to stand, as reported by The Washington Post. The previous ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just published a damning test of Amazon Rekognition, the company’s facial recognition system. “It is worth noting that in real world scenarios, Amazon ...

Amazon is actively courting law-enforcement agencies to use a cloud-based facial-recognition service that can identify people in real time, the American Civil Liberties Union reported Tuesday, citing ...

The democratization of mass surveillance is upon us. Insanely cheap tools with the power to track individuals en masse are now available for anyone to use, as exemplified by a Forbes test of an Amazon ...