FRANCE 24 has won the human rights prize at France’s international festival for current affairs reporting and social documentaries (FIGRA) for an in-depth look at tech company Clearview AI's efforts to identify and log the faces of every single person on the planet. FRANCE 24 also received special mention for a documentary on Ukrainian resistance fighters.
FRANCE 24 reporters Roméo Langlois and Jessica Le Masurier were awarded FIGRA’s human rights prize for the 57-minute-long “Your face is ours: The dangers of facial recognition software” documentary on June 1. The documentary, produced in collaboration with Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism and filmed on three continents, looks at how Clearview AI is amassing a huge database of individual human faces. In all, Clearview AI plans to collect some 100 billion images in its database – 14 for every person on the planet.
