Enlarge (credit: Amazon) Amazon is actively courting law-enforcement agencies to use a cloud-based facial-recognition service that can identify people in real time, the American Civil Liberties Union reported Tuesday, citing the documents obtained from two US departments. The service, which Amazon markets under the name Rekognition, can recognize as many as 100 people in a […]
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UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech
Enlarge Automatic facial recognition (AFR) technology has been used to arrest a man, the South Wales Police told Ars. While AFR tech has been trialled by a number of UK police forces, this appears to be the first time it has led to an arrest. South Wales Police didn’t provide details about the nature of […]
