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Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill review – nowhere to hide

From stalkers to authoritarian states, the use and abuse of facial recognition tech

The Guardian - UK

Albanese is Beijing-bound

PM Anthony Albanese will visit China later this year at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 50 years after Gough Whitlam’s historic visit, and the jostling begins for the seat of Liberal Senator Marise Payne as speculation mounts that she will retire from politics ‘imminently’.

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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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AFP calls on public to donate childhood photos in bid to combat child abuse with AI

Project with Monash University will use images to train system to recognise pictures of children on dark web

The Guardian - AU

Japan fumes over new gas rules

The Albanese government’s new climate policy means Japan will no longer trust Australia as a reliable source of gas, and former Australian Christian Lobby boss Lyle Shelton has ensured Family First is registered for the next NSW state election.

Crikey

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

Your face is ours: The dangers of facial recognition software

Clearview AI is redefining our privacy. The New York-based tech company is working to identify and compile the faces of every human being on the planet. Clearview AI claims that the database will serve as a force for good, helping to solve crimes and prevent espionage. But the risks it…

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Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

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

Salon

Coming Soon: TwitTok!

Episode 428 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

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

Renewed calls for national guidelines on using facial recognition technology after CHOICE investigation

Experts say there is a "huge gap" in laws surrounding facial recognition programs, potentially exposing Australians to data harvesting or being wrongly identified as criminals.

ABC News

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

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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…

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

AFP

UK fines US AI firm £7.5m over mass image collection

London (AFP) - Britain announced Monday it had fined US facial recognition company Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5 million ($9.4 million, 8.8 million euros) for amassing online images of people without their knowledge.

The Independent UK

Facial recognition company used by British police fined £7.5m over unlawful image database

Service ‘effectively monitors the public’s behaviour and offers it as a commercial service’, watchdog finds

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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.

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

The Guardian - UK

How Russia and Ukraine are finding new ways to use tech in the war

Facial recognition and crypto-savviness are just some of the strategies being deployed by both sides in the conflict

Input

The U.S. just took a big step toward regulating AI

The Department of Commerce appointed the National AI Advisory Council members this week.

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