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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

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

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

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

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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’.

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

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: 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…

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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

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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 Independent UK

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…

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