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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…

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo Clearview AI, the dystopian face recognition company that claims to have amassed a database of billions of photos, signed contracts with hundreds of law enforcement agencies, and shopped its app around to the rich and powerful, has extensive links to the far right, according to a…

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (GizmodoClearview AI, the dystopian face recognition company that claims to have amassed a database of billions of photos, signed contracts with hundreds of law enforcement agencies, and shopped its app around to the rich and powerful, has extensive links to the far right, according to a Huffington…

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Roundup Hello Reg readers. Here's a quick roundup of bits and pieces from the worlds of machine learning and AI. Are you in Clearview's database? Probably: Folks covered by the EU’s GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act, and similar laws, can ask Clearview – the controversial face-recognition startup that scraped…

New York Daily News | Mar 27, 2020 | 4:43 PM Digital security system for identity protection and face recognition. Digital identity protection concept.(iStock) Racial justice groups are crying foul over the city teachers union’s use of a controversial facial recognition technology at its headquarters in downtown Manhattan, the Daily…