Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, as Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech
- Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
Investigation finds that Amazon's Rekognition frequently misgenders trans, queer, and nonbinary individuals by design, further alienating a marginalized group
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Amazon CTO says AI tools like Lex are the next big thing after AWS, and it's not Amazon's responsibility to ensure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically
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SEC: Amazon has to let shareholders vote on proposals to curb sales of its controversial facial recognition product Rekognition to government agencies
SEC Alex Pasternack / Fast Company : Amazon says face recognition fears are “insignificant.” The SEC disagrees
Rekognition's only known law enforcement client does not use “confidence threshold”, undermining Amazon's defense against research showing the software's bias
Faced with two independent studies that found its facial recognition software returns inaccurate or biased results …
Rekognition's only known law enforcement client does not use “confidence threshold”, undermining Amazon's defense against research showing the software's bias
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Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends Rekognition, says it's the government's duty to help specify regulations for facial recognition tech
Amazon executives defended the company's controversial facial recognition technology at an all-hands staff meeting on Thursday …
In letters to Jeff Bezos, nearly 20 Amazon shareholder groups, ACLU, and others call for halt of selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to law enforcement
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