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Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images)On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council approved a new ordinance that prevents the city from buying or using face recognition technology without specific permission. Local police immediately began whining about it. In a press release, the city council announced that it voted 13-0 in favor of…

Sweden’s data protection authority, the IMY, has fined the local police authority €250,000 ($300k+) for unlawful use of the controversial facial recognition software, Clearview AI, in breach of the country’s Criminal Data Act. As part of the enforcement the police must conduct further training and education of staff in order…

Two Google engineers resign over the firing of two women at the company, the internet groans after hearing about Amazon’s plans to introduce a 10-hour graveyard shift, known as the “megacycle,” and the controversial tech company Clearview AI is facing some heat in Canada. It’s all the tech news that’s…

By AFP     Feb 3, 2021 in World US facial recognition technology firm Clearview AI illegally conducted mass surveillance in breach of Canadians' privacy rights, Canada's privacy commissioner said Wednesday following an investigation. "What Clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal," Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told a…

Four of Canada’s privacy commissioners have denounced the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. The software firm has been used by law enforcement agencies around the world – including Toronto – allowing them to follow up on potential suspects with Clearview’s massive profile database. But Clearview’s scraping of billions of…

Therrien said that due to the way photos were scraped from the internet, it is difficult to say how many Canadian photographs are in Clearview's database. Author of the article: Dylan Short Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021  •  February 4, 2021  •  3 minute read File photo of Information and…

OTTAWA — Privacy watchdogs say U.S. firm Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology resulted in mass surveillance of Canadians and violated federal and provincial laws governing personal information. OTTAWA — Privacy watchdogs say U.S. firm Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology resulted in mass surveillance of Canadians and violated federal and provincial laws governing…

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On November 20, 2020, the Fuyang District Court of Hangzhou City held a trial in the case of Guo Bing v. Hangzhou Wildlife World Park. The court held that the collection of face recognition information exceeded the requirements of the necessary principles and was not justified. Wildlife World Park was…

In mid-November, a video of a man wearing a helmet while visiting a real estate sales center in Jinan went viral on social media. The man claimed that he was trying to prevent the sales center from collecting his face image. It turned out that the video was staged, but…