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The NYPD used Clearview’s controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know - 12 avril 2021
Newly-released emails show New York police have been widely using the controversial Clearview AI facial recognition system—and making misleading statements about it.
It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a search (...)
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Clearview AI Offered Thousands Of Cops Free Trials - 9 avril 2021
A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments.
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly (...)
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« Il nous faut retrouver une forme d’hygiène numérique » - 3 mars 2021
Quelles traces numériques laissons-nous au quotidien ?
Elles sont de plus en plus nombreuses. L’image d’Épinal de ces « traces » renvoie surtout au profil que l’on se construit sur un réseau social. On y renseigne son nom, son état civil, son âge, sa profession, ses goûts… Mais ces données personnelles ne constituent que (...)
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Clearview AI Is Taking Facial Recognition Privacy to the Supreme Court - 27 février 2021
International regulators have found Clearview AI’s technology breaches their privacy laws
Clearview AI plans to challenge an Illinois law guarding against private facial recognition databases in the Supreme Court, according to Bloomberg Law.
The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been a thorn (...)
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This Clearview AI Patent Proposal Describes Using Facial Recognition For Dating - 14 février 2021
A Clearview AI Patent Application Describes Facial Recognition For Dating, And Identifying Drug Users And Homeless People
A patent unveiled on Thursday describes several potential uses for Clearview AI, such as creating networks for people in industries like real estate or retail to “share headshots of high-risk (...)
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Clearview AI envisage la création d’une effrayante app de reconnaissance faciale grand public - 14 février 2021
Clearview a déposé un brevet dans lequel il projette toutes sortes d’usages plus inquiétants les uns que les autres pour sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale.
Ce n’est qu’un brevet déposé au bureau américain de la propriété intellectuelle, mais il en dit long sur les ambitions inquiétantes de Clearview AI. Souvenez-vous (...)
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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 12 février 2021
A new report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations looks at the use and abuse of facial recognition technology by states across the globe, providing detailed case studies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition (...)
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Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU - 9 février 2021
Clearview AI is a US company that scrapes photos from websites to create a permanent searchable database of biometric profiles. US authorities use the face recognition database to find further information on otherwhise unknown persons in pictures and videos. Following legal submissions by noyb, the Hamburg Data (...)
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The dark side of open source intelligence - 16 janvier 2021
Internet sleuths have used publicly available data to help track down last week’s Washington D.C. rioters. But what happens when the wrong people are identified ?
In May, a video of a woman flouting a national Covid-19 mask mandate went viral on social media in Singapore. In the clip, the bare-faced woman argues (...)
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The Capitol siege and facial recognition technology. - 14 janvier 2021
In a recent New Yorker article about the Capitol siege, Ronan Farrow described how investigators used a bevy of online data and facial recognition technology to confirm the identity of Larry Rendall Brock Jr., an Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran from Texas. Brock was photographed inside the Capitol (...)
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A Local Police Department Is Running Clearview AI Searches for the FBI - Dave Gershgorn - 13 janvier 2021
The FBI, which is searching for insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, is working with an unlikely partner : a local police department more than 600 miles away from Washington, D.C.
An officer in Alabama named Jason Webb told the Wall Street Journal that he had used Clearview AI technology on (...)
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Capitole : la police identifie les assaillants grâce à Clearview AI et sa reconnaissance faciale - 13 janvier 2021
Selon le PDG de Clearview AI, l’utilisation de la technologie de reconnaissance faciale de son entreprise par les forces de l’ordre a augmenté de 26% le lendemain de l’attaque du Capitole. D’abord rapporté par le New York Times, Hoan Ton-That a confirmé que Clearview avait connu une forte augmentation de l’utilisation de (...)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack - 13 janvier 2021
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most of the organizing. (...)
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The facial-recognition app Clearview sees a spike in use after Capitol attack. - 10 janvier 2021
After the Capitol riot, Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app used by law enforcement, has seen a spike in use, said the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Mr. Ton-That said.
There are ample online photos and videos of (...)
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Flawed Facial Recognition Leads To Arrest and Jail for New Jersey Man - 1er janvier 2021
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.
In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, (...)
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Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition - 29 décembre 2020
The racial justice movement pushed problems with the technology into public consciousness—but despite scandals and bans, its growth isn’t slowing.
America’s first confirmed wrongful arrest by facial recognition technology happened in January 2020. Robert Williams, a Black man, was arrested in his driveway just (...)
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The Facial Recognition Backlash Is Here - 19 décembre 2020
But will the current bans last ?
The facial recognition industry has been quietly working alongside law enforcement, military organizations, and private companies for years, leveraging 40-year old partnerships originally centered around fingerprint databases.
But in 2020, the industry faced an unexpected (...)
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Holiday Tech Gift Guide : 2020’s Most Creepy Surveillance Gifts - 25 novembre 2020
Let your loved ones decide what privacy means to them
One of the best things about the holiday season is that you get to force your own privacy preferences on others.
Maybe your family member wouldn’t normally buy a watch that tells Google when they’re asleep or a doorbell that helps them inform on their (...)
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DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA - 18 novembre 2020
As the agency plans to collect more biometrics, including from U.S. citizens, Northrop Grumman is helping build the infrastructure.
Through a little-discussed potential bureaucratic rule change, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect unprecedented levels of biometric information from (...)
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‘Zoom and Enhance’ Is Finally Here - 15 septembre 2020
And its surveillance implications are scary
We all know the scene. Two detectives on a cop show stand in a dimly lit room filled with monitors, reviewing surveillance images. A tech guy (yes, it’s almost always a guy) queues up image after image as the detectives look on, squinting at the screen in concentration. (...)
