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Clearview’s controversial facial recognition technology is getting closer to being patented by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO has given Clearview a “notice of allowance”, a sign that the startup’s patent application will be approved once it pays administrative costs, Politico reported. Clearview said it has scraped ten…

In brief: Regulators are still struggling to craft rules and protocols for the use of facial recognition, but some regions are considering an outright ban on any automated, large-scale systems that use it. Still, that doesn't seem to stop companies like Clearview AI, who is now a few administrative fees…

Getty Images Clearview AI, the company behind a controversial facial recognition system that scrapes social media sites to add pictures of people to its database, is on the cusp of receiving a patent for its technology. The company confirmed Saturday that the US Trademark and Patent Office had sent it…

Clearview AI is about to get formal acknowledgment for its controversial facial recognition technology. Politico reports Clearview has received a US Patent and Trademark Office "notice of allowance" indicating officials will approve a filing for its system, which scans faces across public internet data to find people from government lists…

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been warned it could face a £17m fine for multiple breaches of UK Data Protection law. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today that the company, which uses scraping technology to harvest photographs of people from social media and websites, is alleged…

Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital, a hospital unit run by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University, has upgraded its registration process by installing a contactless, face recognition system by NEC Thailand. The IT and network service provider was tapped to provide face recognition technology across the hospital's patient registration…

Files from Jori Negin-Shecter Elon Musk disputes the Hertz deal, Zillow is backing out of the home buying market, and Facebook has shut down its face recognition. It’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, November 4th, and I’m your host, Samira Balsara.…

By Matt O'BrienNovember 4, 2021 — 8.00am An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. It’s the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates…

A hot potato: Despite getting under the skin of just about every regulator imaginable, Clearview AI continues to collect and scape publicly available images of individuals worldwide. Regulators in several countries have been debating how authorities can use this particular biometric technology. In the meantime, it seems Clearview has become…

On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was ending its Face Recognition system on the app and rolling back the technology in the coming weeks. In a press release, Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Meta (the new name for Facebook’s parent company), said that the shutting down of the…