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Walmart allegedly snoops on your cash purchases — and no, it’s not the way you’re thinking

Is Walmart making a list and checking it twice?

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Clearview Windows review: best installer for a good guarantee

Clearview has a generous 20-year guarantee on many of its products, although the work itself is guaranteed for the more industry-standard 10 years

The Independent UK

Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails.

Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.

Texas Observer

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The best double glazing window companies and fitters for UK homes in 2025

Our expert compares the UK’s top-rated window fitters based on prices, warranties, customer satisfaction and the range of frames and glazing each provider offers

The Independent UK

'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture

"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database."

LiveScience

Clearview AI fined $33 million for facial recognition database

The Dutch Data Protection Authority also issued a non-compliance fine of €5 million.

TechRadar

Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces

The Dutch data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition startup Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros or $33.7 million over its creation of what the agency called an “illegal database” of billion of photos of faces

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Privacy regulator drops pursuit of Clearview AI as Greens call for more scrutiny on use of Australians’ images

OAIC says decision stands that company must cease collecting images and delete those on record, but Clearview AI is yet to prove compliance

The Guardian - AU

Clearview AI Reaches M Settlement In Privacy Lawsuit

Clearview AI settles million Illinois lawsuit over facial recognition privacy violations, offering unique arrangement to plaintiffs.

Top News

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights

The Independent UK

Is Facial Recognition a Useful Public Safety Tool or Something Sinister?

Your Face Belongs to Us documents how facial recognition might threaten our freedom.

Reason

Miami Police Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition in Arrest of Homeless Man

Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.

Reason

Congress must protect our privacy rights by stopping ‘warrantless surveillance’

Law enforcement routinely circumvents laws meant to protect privacy, by purchasing peoples’ personal information via data brokers. Sen. Dick Durbin should do more to stop it, the head of Lucy Parsons Lab writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Australian federal police tested controversial facial recognition search engine, FOI documents reveal

Exclusive: AFP tells Senate estimates it is now aware the PimEyes and FaceCheck.ID platforms may have been tested for operational purposes on around 10 occasions

The Guardian - AU

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The Independent UK

$5.6 million bid for one offshore tract marks modest start for Gulf of Mexico wind energy

A company has bid $5.6 million to lease federal waters off the Louisiana coast for wind energy generation

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: ‘Are you kidding, carjacking?’ – The problem with facial recognition in policing

When a pregnant Black woman was falsely arrested, she fought back. Here’s what happened next. Plus, the week in AI

Tom’s Guide

GE Profile Clearview Window air conditioner review

The design of the GE Profile Clearview window air conditioner allows more light into your room.

Salon

Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

In a BBC interview, Clearview's CEO admitted to scraping user photos for its software

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The Week

Facial recognition technology and policing: an unholy alliance?

Clearview, the company behind one of the most advanced models of facial recognition software, claims to have run more than a million searches on behalf of US police.

Los Angeles Times

LAPD doesn't fully track its use of facial recognition, report finds

LOS ANGELES — Two years after Los Angeles police leaders set tougher limits on the use of facial recognition technology, a follow-up report found the department lacks a way to track its outcomes or effectiveness.

Los Angeles Times

Police Commission sets new rules for how LAPD uses surveillance technology

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday adopted new rules for how police can use crimefighting technologies, despite opposition from advocacy groups who said they could lead to increased surveillance of people.

The Conversation

Facial recognition technology: how it's being used in Ukraine and why it's still so controversial

Facial recognition technology is being used in warfare for the first time. It could be a game changer in Ukraine, where it is being used to identify the dead and reunite families. But if we fail to grapple with the ethics of this technology now, we could find ourselves in…

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition firms should take a look in the mirror

Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Clearview AI was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?

The facial recognition firm earned a heavy fine for scraping millions of pictures of people’s faces from social media. But that doesn’t mean it will change its ways

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: UK Monkeypox cases on the rise

Plus, Europe’s first autonomous petrol station launches

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