Clearview

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…

Files from Tom Li The U.S. offers the highest pay to software developers, online scams are still on the rise, and Ukraine’s ministry of defence employs Clearview AI’s facial recognition tech. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Wednesday, March 23, and I’m…

Clearview AI this week revealed that it has offered the Ukraine government free access to the company’s facial recognition AI (artificial intelligence) technology, potentially to uncover Russian assailants, identify refugees, combat misinformation, and identify the dead. The news comes weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was shared in…

On March 1, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, posted a short video on Telegram in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. In an accompanying post, Kadyrov assured Ukrainians that the Russian army doesn’t hurt civilians and that Vladimir…

Collect all the faces — Investor pitch said 100 billion photos would make almost everyone "identifiable." Jon Brodkin - Feb 16, 2022 10:00 pm UTC The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI reportedly told investors that it aims to collect 100 billion photos—supposedly enough to ensure that almost every human…

Police say 28-year-old Amandeep Singh was trapped under a dump truck on February 12; the investigation is ongoing NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE ************************** CLEARVIEW TWP — Members of the Huronia West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are assisting with a death investigation at a worksite in Clearview Township. On…

A group of four progressive lawmakers — Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — sent letters to several federal agencies on Wednesday calling for an end to their use of Clearview AI’s controversial facial recognition system. The letter was…