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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Its easy-to-use Rekognition API allows you to automatically identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Developers can quickly build a searchable content library to optimize media workflows, enrich recommendation engines by extracting text in images, or integrate secondary authentication into existing applications to enhance end-user security. With a wide variety of use cases, Amazon Rekognition enables you to easily add the benefits of computer vision to your business.

Amazon Biometrics News

 

Amazon to end support for voice biometrics, recommends Pindrop

Amazon is ending support for its voice biometric offering Amazon Connect Voice ID. Launched in 2021, Amazon Connect Voice ID…

Mar 20, 2025

Documents aim to lay out use cases, standards for mobile driver’s licenses

The Secure Technology Alliance’s (STA) Identity and Access Forum has released a new resource on mobile driver’s license (mDL) use…

Mar 18, 2025

Reusable digital ID promises improved customer experience

A new Reusable Digital ID Network partnership to serve UK financial services providers has been announced by Select ID, SQR,…

Mar 11, 2025

Passkeys see continued pickup by major tech names including Microsoft, Amazon

The long, slow death of the password continues, as major firms standardize stronger authentication measures to become more cyber-resilient and…

Mar 7, 2025

Vendors make their case why biometrics and the healthcare sector go together

Companies such as Amazon have been introducing biometric authentication systems into the healthcare sector, adapting its Amazon One palm biometrics…

Mar 4, 2025

Amazon expands its palm biometric payment to healthcare

Amazon is one of the major companies to introduce palm biometric payment and the e-commerce giant is now expanding the…

Feb 5, 2025

Amazon can’t block BIPA voice biometrics case even though federal case failed

A federal judge in Delaware will not block a lawsuit filed in Illinois state court against Amazon Web Services (AWS),…

Jan 8, 2025

Daon brings biometrics, deepfake detection to AWS ISV Accelerate program

Daon is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate program to grow the market reach of…

Oct 17, 2024

Amazon is ready to use digital identity, even though its hard

Remote digital identity proofing is in the midst of a dramatic upheaval, but the change is not proceeding quickly. A…

Oct 14, 2024

Voice biometrics gain momentum in India’s financial sector

India is stepping into the future with voice biometrics, an authentication method that promises enhanced security and user convenience. Voice…

Jul 31, 2024

Ideal authentication solution boils down to using best tools to stop attacks

Authentication: why do we do it? The conversation about authentication often centers on technologies, devices, methods and user experience. Biometrics…

Jul 25, 2024

Biometric data privacy lawsuit against Amazon, Starbucks mostly thrown out

A lawsuit against a pair of retail titans in New York City over alleged violations of biometric data protection rules…

Jun 4, 2024

Palm payments more accessible with pickup from Mastercard, Amazon app

Major financial players have lauded the potential of palm payments, China has explored palm biometrics for transit, and major sports…

Apr 29, 2024

DHS forms new board to advise on AI deployments in critical infrastructure

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formed an AI Safety and Security Board, bringing together leaders from government,…

Apr 24, 2024

T-Mobile, Amazon, and Target hit with facial recognition lawsuits

More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New…

Apr 2, 2024

Judge allows voice biometrics data privacy lawsuit against Amazon to add plaintiffs

A federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who want to amend their lawsuit against Amazon over alleged violations of Illinois’…

Mar 29, 2024

Retail biometrics roll outs expand to bodegas and enrollment app

Retail biometrics are growing rapidly, but stakeholder consultation, testing, and policy development must be prioritized to guard against the technology’s…

Feb 6, 2024

Tesla settles privacy case while Amazon and Facebook are frozen in place with theirs

Of three recent turns in U.S. biometric privacy lawsuits, only one, a settlement, has much to do with privacy itself….

Jan 26, 2024

Amazon of 2 minds with law enforcement deals – fleeing locally, selling federally

This week brought news that Amazon, on the one hand, appears to be selling AI services to the FBI, and…

Jan 8, 2024

Verified in Vegas: biometrics on display at world’s largest tech conference 

CES 2024 takes over the Las Vegas Convention Center and Venetian Hotel this week until January 12, and AI is…

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