Clearview

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…

Whether you want to build a complex deep learning model for a self-driving car, a live face recognition program, or making your image processing software for your graduate project, you will have to learn OpenCV along the way. OpenCV is a huge image and video processing library designed to work…

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have published new research about super-recognizers: people who have a knack for remembering faces.In their paper, the researchers describe the results of their UNSW Face Test, meant to identify super-recognizers. Since 2017, about 25,000 people have taken the test. Their ultimate…

(Lack of) privacy: Facial recognition technology has always been the source of much debate surrounding privacy in the digital era. While many companies and governments have embraced the tech for purposes like law enforcement or machine learning, some have begun to push back against it lately. Multiple cities have banned…

Photo: David McNew / Staff (Getty Images)The Los Angeles Police Department issued a moratorium on the use of commercial facial recognition software on Tuesday, effectively ending a trial with dystopian software manufacturer Clearview AI that the department had long sought to downplay.The decision reportedly comes after Buzzfeed News probed the…