Clearview

The ICO found that Clearview AI had been in breach of data protection laws, collected personal data without people’s consent, and asked for additional information, such as photos, when people asked if they were in the database. It found that this may have “acted as a disincentive” for people who…

The UK’s data protection watchdog has ordered controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI to delete all data it holds on UK residents after the company was found to have made multiple breaches of UK data protection law. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined the company – which uses scraping technology…

Clearview AI, a New York-headquartered facial recognition company, has been fined £7.5 million ($9.4 million) by a U.K. privacy regulator. Over the last few years, the firm has collected images from the web and social media of people in Britain and elsewhere to create a global online database that can…

Updated The UK's data protection body today made good on its threat to fine controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, ordering it to stop scraping the personal data of residents from the internet, delete what it already has, and pay a £7.5 million ($9.43 million) fine. The company, which is…

A group of human rights lawyers and investigators called on the Hague this week to bring what would be the first ever “cyber war crimes” charges. The group is urging the International Criminal Court to bring charges against the dangerous and destructive Russian hacking group known as Sandworm, which is…

The Republican Party might pursue an all-out assault on civil rights if the Supreme Court overturns federal abortion rights, and it will require a robust surveillance state. As I wrote last week, the high-tech snooping GOP-led states will need to enforce their draconian abortion bans sounds like it’s straight out…

In a landmark settlement, facial recognition company Clearview AI, known for downloading billions of user photos from social media and other websites to build a face-search database for use by law enforcement, has agreed to cease sales to private companies and individuals in the United States. Filed in Illinois' federal court…

Clearview AI has promised to stop selling its controversial face-recognizing tech to most private US companies in a settlement proposed this week with the ACLU. The New-York-based startup made headlines in 2020 for scraping billions of images from people's public social media pages. These photographs were used to build a…

(Source: Dignited) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio According to a report released by the European Patent Office on Tuesday, Chinese tech giant Huawei had applied for 3,544 patents in Europe in 2021, surpassing Samsung and thus ranking first. Huawei has always been a tech firm focusing on R&D. According…

A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and the Ukrainian military now plans to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses By MATT O'BRIEN and TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writers 1 April 2022, 22:16…