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Hoan Ton-That, the CEO and founder of a face recognition company that he freely admits could help lead to a surveillance nightmare and a dystopian future or something, says he has a First Amendment right to scrape whatever images he damn well pleases off publ…

This week, additional stories came out about Clearview AI, the company we wrote about earlier that’s marketing a powerful facial recognition tool to law enforcement. These stories discuss some of the police departments around the country that have been secretly using Clearview’s technology, and they show, yet again, why we…

Clearview AI app used by 600+ law enforcement agencies, from local police departments to FBI, DHS Twitter told law enforcement app maker Clearview AI that its scraping of Twitter images for facial recognition databases violated Twitter policies. The company behind the app is sort of mysterious, but has in recent…

The global debate on the use of facial recognition by governments and law enforcement just got a lot more intense. Over the weekend, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill published an eye-opening piece detailing a relatively unknown firm offering facial recognition services to roughly 600 US law enforcement agencies, with…

Facial recognition can spot you anywhere. Image: Getty Images By Sasha Lekach2020-01-18 21:39:49 UTC A Facebook photo from the end of college could come back to haunt you.  A New York Times deep-dive into a facial recognition AI tool sold to law enforcement agencies uncovered that the company has amassed…

Aerosmith. Nickelback. Skynyrd. Kid Rock. Alice Cooper. Roxodus Music Fest and its heavyweight lineup seemingly came out of nowhere and, considering it's a first-year festival, brought its share of skeptics with it. But that hasn't stopped the team behind this mid-July mega-fest from pushing forward with big plans and big…

Aerosmith. Nickelback. Skynyrd. Kid Rock. Alice Cooper. Roxodus Music Fest and its heavyweight lineup seemingly came out of nowhere and, considering it's a first-year festival, brought its share of skeptics with it. But that hasn't stopped the team behind this mid-July mega-fest from pushing forward with big plans and big…