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The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been warned it could face a £17m fine for multiple breaches of UK Data Protection law. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today that the company, which uses scraping technology to harvest photographs of people from social media and websites, is alleged…

Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital, a hospital unit run by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University, has upgraded its registration process by installing a contactless, face recognition system by NEC Thailand. The IT and network service provider was tapped to provide face recognition technology across the hospital's patient registration…

Files from Jori Negin-Shecter Elon Musk disputes the Hertz deal, Zillow is backing out of the home buying market, and Facebook has shut down its face recognition. It’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, November 4th, and I’m your host, Samira Balsara.…

By Matt O'BrienNovember 4, 2021 — 8.00am An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. It’s the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates…

A hot potato: Despite getting under the skin of just about every regulator imaginable, Clearview AI continues to collect and scape publicly available images of individuals worldwide. Regulators in several countries have been debating how authorities can use this particular biometric technology. In the meantime, it seems Clearview has become…

On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was ending its Face Recognition system on the app and rolling back the technology in the coming weeks. In a press release, Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new name for Facebook’s parent company), said that the shutting down of the…

Facebook is shutting down its automatic face recognition feature for tagging people in photos and videos.  It is reported that the social media platform will delete more than one billion faces in its database. As a result, users will no longer be able to make use of the feature –…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has demanded that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, preserve its facial recognition system data due to an ongoing Texas investigation into the company's biometric data collection practices. Paxton is pictured speaking to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on November 1,…

Today Facebook has shocked the world by announcing that it's shutting down its automatic face tagging system, powered by facial recognition. This is the system that figures out who is in photos based on the faces it sees. People who have previously opted in to using this will no longer…

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev (Getty Images) On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement. According to a new blog post from the platform’s shiny new parent company, Meta, the big blue app will be shuttering its…