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When Italy’s data protection watchdog slapped a €20 million fine on facial recognition company Clearview AI earlier this month, it was just the latest move by European authorities against the controversial start-up. The U.S.-based facial recognition company amassed millions of images, scraped from various sources online, and sells its technology to authorities to identify suspects …
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The University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department (UICPD) used a free version of Clearview AI technology to conduct investigations into alleged crimes, leading the department to target suspects identified by the controversial facial recognition technology. The free trial offered and used by the department then led to the purchase of the software. It raises …
A group of Democrats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives are urging several federal agencies to stop using the facial recognition software by Clearview AI. Clearview AI is the controversial startup that created a database of billions of people’s photos without their knowledge by scraping public images from the internet and social …
