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'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

The Independent UK

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Australia’s privacy regulator just dropped its case against ‘troubling’ facial recognition company Clearview AI. Now what?

The office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced this week it would be taking no further action against facial recognition company Clearview AI. This marked a significant victory for one of the most controversial technology companies in the world.

The Conversation

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

Photos of Australian kids have been found in a massive AI training data set. What can we do?

Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that generate images.

The Conversation

Clearview AI Reaches M Settlement In Privacy Lawsuit

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

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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

FRANCE 24 wins FIGRA prize for AI facial recognition documentary

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…

France 24

Clearview AI is still collecting photos of Australians for its facial recognition database

Clearview AI said it can’t stop using Australians’ data for its facial recognition software because it can’t tell who’s Australian.

Crikey

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

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’.

The Guardian - AU

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

Crikey

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.

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France 24

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…

Salon

Did an AI harvest your Facebook photos?

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

Reason

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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.

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

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