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Toronto police say a 38-year-old man from Kitchener, Ont., has died after a shooting in a residential area in the city's northwest. Police say they were called to an apartment building near Clearview Heights and Trethewey Drive on Saturday just before 5 p.m. for reports that a person had been…

Think twice before posting that selfie on Facebook; you might be added to a police database. CLICK TO GET KURT’S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER With all the excitement around AI, thanks to ChatGPT, many are cheering for this…

It's never been about safety as much as it has control, serving and protecting only to the benefit of the status quo. Clearview AI, PredPol, Shotspotter, they're all Carolyn Bryant Donham's testimony behind a veneer of technological validity — a shiny black box to dazzle the masses while giving the…

Image source, Spencer Whalen / EyeEm By James Clayton & Ben Derico BBC News, San Francisco Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC. CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as…

Having an unlocked iPhone–without so much as a four-digit barrier between you and some subway snatcher–is asking for trouble. Four-digit passcodes or PINs were the only way to secure the earliest iPhone models. Today, 16 years after the iPhone’s debut, we have progressed to a six-digit standard passcode accompanied by…

Five days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a year ago this week, US-based facial recognition company Clearview AI offered the Ukrainian government free access to its technology, suggesting that it could be used to reunite families, identify Russian operatives, and fight misinformation. Soon afterward, the Ukraine government…

The US Department of Justice files an antitrust lawsuit against Google’s ad business, Microsoft looks to find out the number of unsupported Microsoft Office installed on Windows PCs and China leads in exports of face recognition technology. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending.…

Ever since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and laid off a large percentage of the company’s staff, there have been concerns about data breaches. Now it seems a security incident that predates Musk’s takeover is causing headaches. This week, it emerged that hackers released a trove of 200 million email addresses and…

Wrongful arrest — Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face. Jon Brodkin - Jan 4, 2023 10:46 pm UTC Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Police in Louisiana reportedly relied on an incorrect facial recognition match to secure warrants to arrest a Black man for…

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