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Facial recognition company Clearview AI probed by Canada privacy agencies - Reuters - 25 février 2020
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian privacy authorities have launched an investigation into New York-based Clearview AI to determine whether the firm’s use of facial recognition technology complies with the country’s privacy laws, the agencies said on Friday.
Clearview AI bills itself as a tool for law enforcement, (...)
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No, Clearview AI’s creepy plan to spy on us is not ’free speech’ | Jake Laperruque | Opinion | The Guardian - 21 février 2020
This mass surveillance is misguided and sinister. We must push back before it’s too late
Law enforcement agencies around the world are enthusiastically adopting the services of Clearview AI, a tech company whose powerful software scrapes several billion open-source images for the purposes of facial recognition.
As (...)
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NEC Is the Most Important Facial Recognition Company You’ve Never Heard Of - 20 février 2020
The company supplies its software to everyone from Carnival Cruises to your local police department
In July 2018, the mayor of Irving, Texas, signed a contract that would dramatically expand how the city’s police department could investigate crimes using facial recognition.
The police department agreed to port its (...)
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Rights groups join student demands to bar facial recognition at colleges - CNET - 16 février 2020
The ACLU, EFF and several other groups sign a letter of support for the student demands.
Students shouldn’t have to worry that colleges and universities are tracking their movements with facial recognition, a group of rights organizations said in an open letter Thursday. The letter supports demands by student (...)
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How Clearview AI is using facial recognition - Vox - 13 février 2020
Clearview AI built a massive database of faces that it’s making available to law enforcement, and nobody’s stopping it.
Your Instagram pictures could be part of a facial recognition database that’s been made available to law enforcement agencies. That’s thanks to Clearview AI, a mysterious startup that has scraped (...)
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Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Is Identifying Child Victims of Abuse - The New York Times - 9 février 2020
Though a breakthrough for law enforcement, the technique could allow the little-known start-up to collect an extraordinarily sensitive set of data and images.Law enforcement agencies across the United States and Canada are using Clearview AI — a secretive facial recognition start-up with a database of three billion (...)
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YouTube demands Clearview AI stop scraping its videos for facial recognition database - The Verge - 9 février 2020
YouTube has sent a cease and desist letter to Clearview AI demanding that the controversial facial recognition startup stop scraping YouTube videos to gather faces for its database and delete any images it’s already collected. The demand, first reported by CBS News, says that YouTube forbids anyone from collecting (...)
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Clearview conseille de faire n’importe quoi avec son logiciel de reconnaissance faciale - Cyberguerre - 8 février 2020
Tout va bien : la startup de reconnaissance faciale Clearview incite à un usage abusif de sa technologie, et veut conquérir de nouveaux clients dans des pays condamnés pour violation des droits de l’homme.
Plus on en sait sur Clearview, plus ses pratiques de vente et d’utilisation apparaissent dépourvues de tout cadre (...)
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Reconnaissance faciale : YouTube et Facebook mettent en demeure la start-up Clearview AI - 7 février 2020
L’entreprise propose à la police américaine un logiciel permettant de comparer un portrait avec trois milliards de photos trouvées sur les réseaux sociaux.
Les ennuis se poursuivent pour la start-up Clearview AI, après l’enquête que lui a consacrée le New York Times le 18 janvier. Cette entreprise, jusqu’alors discrète, a (...)
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Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes - 7 février 2020
Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram.
As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 (...)
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Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front : Schools - The New York Times - 7 février 2020
A district in New York has adopted the technology in the name of safety. Opponents cite privacy and bias concerns.
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Jim Shultz tried everything he could think of to stop facial recognition technology from entering the public schools in Lockport, a small city 20 miles east of Niagara Falls. He (...)
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Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society - 3 février 2020
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max Eliaser
The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of ubiquitous government surveillance. Many countries today are struggling to (...)
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Why We Should Ban Facial Recognition Technology - 2 février 2020
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.”
Of the many unsettling aspects to Clearview AI, a shadowy facial-recognition-software company providing users access to a database of 3 billion photographs scraped from social media and (...)
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Clearview’s Face Surveillance Shows Why We Need a Strong Federal Consumer Privacy Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1er février 2020
The New York Times’ recent story on Clearview AI, maker of a secretive facial recognition app that markets its product to law enforcement, has raised critical questions about what can be done to protect our privacy online. Clearview claims to have amassed a dataset of over three billion face images by scraping (...)
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New Jersey Bars Police From Using Clearview Facial Recognition App - The New York Times - 29 janvier 2020
New Jersey police officers are now barred from using a facial recognition app made by a start-up that has licensed its groundbreaking technology to hundreds of law enforcement agencies around the country.
Gurbir S. Grewal, New Jersey’s attorney general, told state prosecutors in all 21 counties on Friday that (...)
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Rogue NYPD cops using facial recognition app Clearview - 29 janvier 2020
Rogue NYPD officers are using a sketchy facial recognition software on their personal phones that the department’s own facial recognition unit doesn’t want to touch because of concerns about security and potential for abuse, The Post has learned.
Clearview AI, which has scraped millions of photos from social media (...)
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Quick, cheap to make and loved by police – facial recognition apps are on the rise | John Naughton | Technology | The Guardian - 28 janvier 2020
Clearview AI may be controversial but it’s not the first business to identify you from your online pics
Way back in May 2011, Eric Schmidt, who was then the executive chairman of Google, said that the rapid development of facial recognition technology had been one of the things that had surprised him most in a long (...)
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Class-action lawsuit filed against controversial Clearview AI startup | ZDNet - 25 janvier 2020
Plaintiffs claim New York startup broke Illinois privacy laws regarding the use of residents’ biometrics data.
A lawsuit — seeking class-action status — was filed this week in Illinois against Clearview AI, a New York-based startup that has scraped social media networks for people’s photos and created one of the (...)
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Piller le web pour entraîner la reconnaissance faciale : Twitter et le sénat interpellent Clearview - Cyberguerre - 25 janvier 2020
Clearview AI a construit sa technologie de reconnaissance faciale en aspirant les données d’autres sites, comme les réseaux sociaux. Mais ces derniers ne voient pas la pratique d’un bon œil.
Mise sous les projecteurs par le New York Times, la startup de reconnaissance faciale Clearview va connaître le contrecoup de sa (...)
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Interdire la reconnaissance faciale (2/3) : quelles discriminations notre société est-elle prête à accepter ? | InternetActu.net - 24 janvier 2020
La reporter Tech du New York Times, Kashmir Hill (@kashhill), vient de publier une longue enquête sur Clearview, une entreprise spécialiste de la surveillance, financée par le multimilliardaire libertarien Peter Thiel – qui est déjà à l’origine de Palantir (Wikipédia), un autre géant de la surveillance qui travaille pour (...)
