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Surprise! Amazon’s suggestions for facial recognition laws wouldn’t govern them at all

sudshr47 February 8, 2019

Who will guard the guards? Amazon!

Amazon has released guidelines for facial recognition software that it wants lawmakers to consider when crafting legislation. With the post, Amazon joins Microsoft in calling for regulation of the technology, and notably, its application in law enforcement.

Notably, as the ACLU points out, Amazon’s suggestions place the burden of “misuse” of the technology onto the people using the tech — not onto the manufacturer, Amazon. Surprise!

“Proposing a weak framework does not absolve Amazon of responsibility for its face surveillance product,” Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU senior legislative counsel, told Mashable over email. Read more…

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Amazon shareholders want the company to stop selling facial recognition to law enforcement

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

Amazon shareholders are demanding the company stop selling Rekognition, the company’s facial recognition software, to law enforcement. Unless the board of directors determines the technology “does not cause or contribute to actual or potential violations of civil and human rights,” shareholders want Amazon to stop selling the software to government agencies. Rekognition, which is part […]

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Police trial of Amazon facial recognition tech doesn’t seem to be going very well

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

Amazon’s facial recognition technology, Rekognition, continues to cause controversy.

In documents recently obtained by BuzzFeed News, we now have a behind-the-scenes look at how Orlando police have been using the technology. After the city let the original pilot program expire after public outcry, Orlando started a second pilot program with an “increased” number of face-scanning cameras.

Amazon’s Rekognition is described broadly as a visual analysis tool. But, deployed by law enforcement, it can scan faces caught on camera and match them against faces in criminal databases. The ACLU called the technology “primed for abuse in the hands of governments” and warned that it “poses a grave threat to communities, including people of color and immigrants.” Read more…

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Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database

sudshr47 September 13, 2018

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development of its platform. The company is now working with Amazon, and specifically its Rekognition API, to detect and read text in Mapillary’s […]

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Congress members demand answers from Amazon about facial recognition software

sudshr47 July 26, 2018

When we called the ACLU’s Amazon’s Rekognition press release an “attention-grabbing stunt” when we wrote about it earlier today, well, consider that attention grabbed. Several Democratic members of Congress have responded with a strongly worded letter to founder Jeff Bezos. Reps. Jimmy Gomez and John Lewis issued a letter to Bezos, after the ACLU noted that […]

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ACLU says Amazon facial recognition associated Congress members with mugshots

sudshr47 July 26, 2018

As far as attention-grabbing stunts go, this is a pretty good one. The ACLU has been attempting to raise awareness of Amazon’s Rekognition software for some time, stating that it “raises profound civil liberties and civil rights concerns.” For its part, Amazon has brushed these off, telling TechCrunch back in May, “As a technology, Amazon […]

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Amazon’s face-ID tool can’t even identify members of Congress correctly, ACLU finds

sudshr47 July 26, 2018

Amazon’s face-identification software Rekognition can’t even correctly identify members of Congress.
The American Civil Liberties Union tested the real-time face identification software (which can identify every single face in a crowd) by comparing p…

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Turns out Orlando won’t stop using Amazon’s facial recognition software

sudshr47 July 14, 2018

Looks like Orlando won’t quit its controversial test of Amazon’s facial recognition software after all.

The city of Orlando and Orlando Police Department released a joint statement on Monday announcing the city would continue testing Rekognition, Amazon’s deep learning facial recognition technology, which has the power to identify every face in a crowd.

Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to Orlando lawmakers claiming the city started testing the program “without inviting a public debate, obtaining local legislative authorization, or adopting rules to prevent harm to Orlando community members,” and demanded that it “immediately” stop using it. Read more…

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Amazon facial recognition software raises privacy concerns with the ACLU

sudshr47 May 22, 2018

Amazon hasn’t exactly kept Rekognition under wraps. In late 2016, the software giant talked up its facial detection software in a relatively benign AWS post announcing that the tech was already being implemented by The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon for suspect identification. The ACLU of Northern California is shining more light on the […]

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AWS ramps up in AI with new consultancy services and Rekognition features

sudshr47 November 22, 2017

Ahead of Amazon’s AWS division big Re:invent conference next week, the company has announced two developments in the area of artificial intelligence. AWS is opening a machine learning lab, ML Solutions Lab, to pair Amazon machine learning experts with customers looking to build solutions using the AI tech. And it’s releasing news feature within Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s… Read More