Clearview

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…

Friday Faves is our weekly blog series highlighting a few select pieces from the REG team’s reading lists. You can catch up on past Friday Faves on the archive.  Cartoon of the week Anne says: Not much more to say – the perfect image and message for the current global status. However…

Image: Getty Images Back in January the tech world was up in arms over a new facial recognition app called Clearview AI. Created by Australian Hoan Ton-That, it has raised alarming privacy concerns due to its ability to compare a photo to a database of over 3 billion images that…

A report reveals the controversial face recognition software Clearview AI was developed with help from far-right extremists. The Huffington Post claims founder Hoan Ton-That has close ties with several extremists, attended dinners organized by alt-right groups and had employees famous for hate speech. It includes Charles Johnson, owner of a crowdfunding platform…

In a major about-face in public health policy, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, and state and local health officials around the country recently began urging people to wear homemade face masks when they’re out in public. The directive is not meant to replace…