Law enforcement and government use of facial recognition technology has long been criticized by privacy advocates, as the technology has been shown to have a racial bias and the scanning of biometric ...

The 'ICE Out of Our Faces Act' aims to ban biometric surveillance by ICE and CBP, while data privacy and immigration reforms ...

Amazon banned police use of its face-recognition technology for a year, making it the latest tech giant to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have faced criticism for incorrectly ...

Massachusetts's American Civil Liberties Union chapter revealed Amazon’s “Rekognition” technology falsely linked the faces of 27 professional athletes in New England to mugshots in a criminal database ...

What's behind Amazon's pullback on palm pay?

There are lots of examples of facial recognition’s role in helping police to locate wanted and vulnerable people. But as ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Amazon’s Ring launched its Familiar Faces feature in December, using facial recognition technology to identify regular visitors. The feature uses facial recognition technology ...

Despite pressure from civil rights groups, activist investors and its own employees, Amazon said Wednesday that shareholders at an annual meeting in Seattle voted against proposals related to two ...