Category: Facial Recognition

Clearview AI must delete all UK resident facial recognition data

John Montgallo
Facial recognition - Delete

The United Kingdom is the fourth country to require the controversial company to do so. Clearview AI, the highly controversial facial recognition company, has been ordered by the United Kingdom’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), to delete all data belonging to the country’s residents. The ICO has also issued Clearview AI a $9.4 million (£7.5 million) fine for failing to be legally compliant. The fine was issued for failing to follow the UK data protection laws with regards to Clearview AI’s facial recognition practices. This is nothing new…

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Facial recognition tech on São Paulo metro hits a wall

Jorge Gonzalez
People on São Paulo Metro - Facial recognition

The technology will not be moving forward as anticipated after major losses due to civil lawsuit. The company behind the facial recognition system that was supposed to launch in the São Paulo metro will not be able to proceed as intended. The software that would have been used was the center of a massive lawsuit lost by the company. The company behind the São Paulo metro facial recognition software attempted to appeal the decision in the civil lawsuit but had its appeal denied. This is only the latest step in…

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Google deploys artificial intelligence to enhance searches by people in crisis

Jorge Gonzalez
Artificial intelligence - Searching via Phone

Individuals conducting queries while experiencing personal crises may see more reliable results. Google has announced that it is using artificial intelligence to improve the results produced by its search engine for users who are experiencing a personal crisis. The goal is to offer more reliable, actionable and trustworthy results for people in immediate crisis. The artificial intelligence assisted results are meant to make sure that people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, sexual assault, or domestic abuse – among other personal crises – will obtain the right reliable and…

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Ukraine employs facial recognition technology to identify bodies of Russian soldiers

Jorge Gonzalez
Facial recognition - Ukraine Flag

Ukrainian vice prime minister Mykhailo Federov said that Clearview AI software is being used. Ukraine has been using facial recognition technology to help identify Russian soldiers who were killed in combat, in order to make it possible to notify next of kin, according to the Ukrainian vice prime minister. The technology is being used to make sure that the families of the dead Russians can be notified. A recent Reuters report stated that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense started using Clearview AI facial recognition software for that purpose this month.…

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Clearview facial recognition company fined nearly $22 million in Italy

L. Green
Facial recognition - Euros - fine

The country’s privacy watchdog has stated that the firm made it possible to track Italian residents. Earlier this week, Italy’s privacy watchdog fined Clearview AI, a facial recognition software company, €20 million (nearly $22 million). The company has also been ordered to delete all data relating to people in Italy. Beyond the fine, the American facial recognition software firm has been ordered to delete all data having to do with people in Italy, and it is banned from collecting and processing any other Italian information. According to Clearview AI, it…

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