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Vermont’s attorney general sued Clearview AI in state court on Tuesday, saying the controversial face recognition company’s use of images scraped from the internet violates its consumer protection and data brokerage laws. The state is seeking a court order requiring that Clearview stop collecting photos of state residents and destroy…

Researchers have created what may be the most advanced system yet for tricking top-of-the-line facial recognition algorithms, subtly modifying images to make faces and other objects unrecognizable to machines. The program, developed by researchers from the University of Chicago, builds on previous work from a group of Google researchers exploring…

After scraping the web for billions of our photos, making dubious claims of accuracy, and marketing its software to countries with authoritarian regimes, Clearview AI has somehow reached yet another new frontier in dystopian facial recognition. According to the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, America’s elites have been using the…

It only takes one picture for Clearview AI to start its search. The interface is simple: all you have to do is take a picture of a face, upload it, and the facial recognition app takes it from there, scanning as many as three billion pictures on the web for…

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra, Gizmodo The controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has already landed in hot water for purportedly letting both law enforcement and rich investors play around in its database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet. However, a new report suggests the company didn’t just stop…

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo )The controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has already landed in hot water for purportedly letting both law enforcement and rich investors play around in its database of billions of photos scraped from the public internet. However, a new report suggests the company didn’t just stop…

Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That. (Screenshot: PBS) Creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI—which claims to have built an extensive database from billions of photos scraped from the public web—allowed the rich and powerful to use its app as a personal plaything and spy tool, according to reporting from the New…

Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That.Screenshot: PBSCreepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI—which claims to have built an extensive database from billions of photos scraped from the public web—allowed the rich and powerful to use its app as a personal plaything and spy tool, according to reporting from the New York Times…

Over two hundred New York City residents—including workers, parents, students, business owners, and technologists—have signed a petition calling to end government use of face surveillance in New York City. This morning, EFF and a coalition of over a dozen civil liberties groups delivered that petition to New York's City Council.…

Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers as they wait in line to purchase the new iPhone 11 at Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store on September 20, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Embattled face recognition startup Clearview AI is topping off a week of intense scrutiny over…