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Australia’s top police met with Clearview AI after it was slammed for breaking nation’s privacy law

EXCLUSIVE: An Australian Federal Police officer arranged for the Clearview AI CEO to appear at a meeting with Australian top police to ‘get some education on the Clearview issue’.

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$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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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GE Profile Clearview Window air conditioner review

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

Tom’s Guide

AFP secretly met with Clearview AI months after being told to not use it, emails reveal

Greens Senator David Shoebridge wants to know what legitimate reason the AFP could have to meet with the controversial company.

Crikey

Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

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

Salon

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.

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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

RCMP's use of facial recognition extends well beyond Clearview AI

A document tabled in Parliament reveals other surveillance tools Canada’s national police force has used to fight human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.

Politico

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.

Los Angeles Times

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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

Clearview AI cops $13m fine in the UK, with help from Australia

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been handed a $13.3 million fine by the UK privacy watchdog following a joint investigation with its Australian counterpart. Clearview AI sells a facial recognition app which allows users to upload a photo of an individual and have it matched with images in…

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Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: UK Monkeypox cases on the rise

Plus, Europe’s first autonomous petrol station launches

The Guardian - UK

UK watchdog fines facial recognition firm £7.5m over image collection

Clearview AI hit with penalty for collecting images of people from social media and web to add to global database

Input

Clearview AI will finally stop selling invasive tech to private companies

The controversial company can (and will) keep selling its database of 20 billion images to public agencies, though.

France 24

Clearview AI settles suit, agrees to limit sale of facial recognition database

Startup Clearview AI has agreed to limit access to its controversial facial recognition database in the United States, settling a lawsuit filed by privacy advocates, a court filing showed Monday.

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AFP

Settlement curbs firm's facial recognition database in US

San Francisco (AFP) - Startup Clearview AI has agreed to limit access to its controversial facial recognition database in the United States, settling a lawsuit filed by privacy advocates, a court filing showed Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Controversial facial recognition firm barred from taking on most private clients, operating in Illinois for 5 years

A settlement filed Monday in Cook County offers a stinging blow to Clearview AI, which has built a facial recognition database with more than 20 billion images ripped from popular websites and apps.

The Independent UK

Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent

Asharq Al-Awsat

Face Scanner Clearview AI Aims to Branch out Beyond Police

A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses. Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed…

Input

Ukraine is using Clearview facial ID on dead Russian soldiers

Sadly, this is what it's come to.

Bangkok Post

Face recognition tech joins Ukraine war

WASHINGTON: Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said on Thursday.

AFP

Complex questions as face recognition tech joins Ukraine war

Washington (AFP) - Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday.

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