A group of activist investors is trying to hold Amazon to account for some of the problems with its Rekognition facial recognition system. To that end, the investors are planning […]

Amazon is doubling down on its decision to stop selling its Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The company halted Rekognition sales to the police last June, in […]

A team of South Korean researchers has published a study that suggests that some of the world’s leading facial recognition APIs may be far more vulnerable to deepfakes than previously […]

“Amazon claims that its system can be used to train an AI to detect an object using as few as 1- images, as opposed to the hundreds or thousands that […]

The Orlando Police Department is giving up on its trial deployment of Amazon’s Rekognition platform, once again ending its on again/off again relationship with the tech giant. The facial recognition […]

Apple’s introduction of the face-scanning Face ID system in 2017’s iPhone X went a long way in helping to make facial recognition for authentication a mainstream technology among consumers. But […]

Amazon is now calling for government regulation of facial recognition technology, even as it defends sales of its own such technology to law enforcement authorities. In a new post on […]

The inaugural MIT AI Policy Congress recently convened in Massachusetts, bringing together leading researchers, industry insiders, and policy experts for a series of discussions about the future of artificial intelligence. […]

A newly published patent application from Amazon outlines a smart doorbell designed to use facial recognition for a kind of technologically-enhanced neighborhood watch. The essential idea is to let users […]

Facial recognition technology has had a big year, in good ways and bad. On the positive side, Apple signaled a more or less definitive switch to 3D facial recognition as […]