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Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union over accusations of 'an extraordinary and unprecedented violation' of privacy.The ACLU filed the case in Illinois, with the backing of a consortium of Chicago-based rights groups.Illinois was the first state in the U.S. to regulate the…

Home » ACLU, Clearview AI, facial recognition, privacy, Surveillance The American Civil Liberties Union on May 28 sued controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, “to put a stop to its unlawful surreptitious capture and storage of millions of Illinoisans’ sensitive biometric identifiers”. Clearview’s face surveillance activities violate the Illinois Biometric Information…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is taking Clearview AI to court, claiming the company's facial surveillance activities violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and "represent an unprecedented threat to our security and safety".The legal action, brought on by lawyers at the ACLU of Illinois and the law…

Souls: Much like content, Twitter harvests them, they’re monetiseable, and closely associated with hell.Grimes, a member of the Cyber Baby–Elon Musk trio, is putting her soul to work by auctioning part of it, in the form of a legal document, to the highest bidder. She told Bloomberg that at first she…

The ACLU and law firm Edelson PC on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Illinois state court to end the "unlawful, privacy-destroying surveillance activities" of Clearview AI, a U.S.-based facial recognition technology startup that has contracted with hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the country. "Companies like Clearview will end privacy…

For several years, a little-known start-up based in New York has been amassing a database of billions of our faceprints — unique biometric identifiers akin to a fingerprint or DNA profile — drawn from personal photos on our social media accounts and elsewhere online. The company has captured these faceprints…

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleging the company illegally collected and stored data on Illinois citizens without their knowledge or consent and then sold access to its technology to law enforcement and…

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Governments around the world are using surveillance technologies to monitor whether COVID-19 patients are complying with instructions to quarantine at home. These include GPS ankle shackles, phone apps that track location, and phone apps that require patients to periodically take quarantine selfies and send them to government monitors. All of…

May 16, 2020 | 5:47pm | Updated May 16, 2020 | 7:57pm It’s time for controversial facial-recognition software company Clearview AI to face its accusers. The Manhattan-based firm’s program “infringes the privacy and civil liberties of nearly everyone in the United States,” a 31-page class-action suit filed in Manhattan federal…