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Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says it will stop selling tech to private companies after furious backlash and class-action lawsuitCourt documents suggest Clearview will stop selling software to private entitiesIt will continue its contract with governments and law enforcement The move has done little to appease public advocates like the…

Clearview AI scrapes images from social media. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Clearview AI, the maker of a controversial facial recognition app being used by US law enforcement to identify suspects and other people, says it will stop doing business with companies not working with law enforcement.Clearview identifies people by comparing photos…

Controversial facial recognition provider Clearview AI says it will no longer sell its app to private companies and non-law enforcement entities, according to a legal filing first reported on Thursday by BuzzFeed News. It will also be terminating all contracts, regardless of whether the contracts are for law enforcement purposes…

By Matthew Guariglia Many of the new surveillance powers now sought by the government to address the COVID-19 crisis would harm our First Amendment rights for years to come. People will be chilled and deterred from speaking out, protesting in public places, and associating with like-minded advocates if they fear…

Many of the new surveillance powers now sought by the government to address the COVID-19 crisis would harm our First Amendment rights for years to come. People will be chilled and deterred from speaking out, protesting in public places, and associating with like-minded advocates if they fear scrutiny from cameras,…

Sure, you lock your home, and you probably don’t share your deepest secrets with random strangers. And if someone knocked on your door and asked to know when you last got your period, you’d tell them to get lost. Yet, as a smartphone user, you’re likely sharing highly personal information…

The Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice invited EFF to testify on law enforcement use of face recognition. The Commission, which was established via Executive Order and convened by Attorney General William Barr earlier this year, is tasked with addressing the serious issues confronting law enforcement and…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Weekly Threat Briefing discuss the following topics: APT, Mobile Malware, Patching, PoetRAT, Ransomware, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to the Weekly Threat Briefing and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.…

Home » Clearview AI, facial recognition A misconfigured server at controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI left its source code publicly accessible, which could potentially have been used to run its app from scratch, TechCrunch reports. Some of the company’s secret keys and credentials, which granted access to Clearview AI’s…

Leveraging the native Swift library to perform face recognition and detection in an iOS appIn the landscape of new technologies that are capable of revolutionizing our daily lives, few are as tantalizing as facial recognition technologies. With all the recent controversy around Clearview AI, people are paying more and more…