Privacy Concerns

Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed use of the controversial facial recognition software known as Clearview AI.The police force says some officers with units investigating child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, cyber crime as well as the digital forensics division, had accessed “a free online trial version” of the application since December…

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KARACHI: Concerned about the broad scope of the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules 2020, approved by the Pakistan government, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) has identified aspects of the rules that create significant risks to privacy and freedom of expression. The GNI is a multi-stakeholder organisation composed of leading…

Clearview AI has billions of photos of innocent and unsuspecting users – Its entire list of clients was reportedly stolen by unknown hackers. You reap what you sow is an old proverb, which has time and again proven to be true specifically in the cyber-world where companies exploit unsuspecting users’…

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday sent a letter to four top U.S. lawmakers urging them not to pre-empt the state’s new privacy law with a watered down federal legislation. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective since the start of 2020, is among the most significant regulations overseeing…

A controversial facial recognition startup that scrapes the internet for billions of pictures for law enforcement agencies has had its entire client list stolen in a major data breach. Clearview AI said the compromised information includes the number of searchers its customers have made and how many accounts they control. “Security…

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Mike Snider USA TODAYPublished 10:09 AM EST Feb 27, 2020Facial recognition software firm Clearview AI, which has been criticized for scraping together a database of as many as 3 billion online images, has been hit with a data breach.The firm, based in New York, apparently saw its list of customers, which…

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Computers are everywhere, from the humble calculator to supercomputers doing everything from simplifying everyday life to unraveling secrets of the world. The evolution of computers has seen them shrunk into credit-card-sized devices and made network boost cloud computing faster and cheaper.Naturally, Edge computing revolves…