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Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War
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Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War

Face recognition is identifying people who have been killed, displaced, or recorded perpetrating alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearview AI made its face recognition system freely available to the Ukrainian government.

April 13, 20222 min read
Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War
Clearview AI

Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War

Face recognition is identifying people who have been killed, displaced, or recorded perpetrating alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearview AI made its face recognition system freely available to the Ukrainian government.

April 13, 20222 min read
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
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Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems

Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.

November 17, 20212 min read
Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
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Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems

Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.

November 17, 20212 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
U.S. Lax on Face Recognition: U.S. agency calls for stricter face recognition controls.
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U.S. Lax on Face Recognition: U.S. agency calls for stricter face recognition controls.

A U.S. government watchdog agency called for stronger face recognition protocols for federal agencies. An audit found that, while many employ face recognition, they may not know where it came from, how it’s being used, or the hazards involved.

July 28, 20211 min read
U.S. Lax on Face Recognition: U.S. agency calls for stricter face recognition controls.
Clearview AI

U.S. Lax on Face Recognition: U.S. agency calls for stricter face recognition controls.

A U.S. government watchdog agency called for stronger face recognition protocols for federal agencies. An audit found that, while many employ face recognition, they may not know where it came from, how it’s being used, or the hazards involved.

July 28, 20211 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
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Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

February 24, 20212 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
Clearview AI

Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

February 24, 20212 min read
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
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AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.

Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.

January 13, 20212 min read
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
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AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.

Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.

January 13, 20212 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
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Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
Clearview AI

Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works
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Steal Your Face: How Clearview AI's face recognition system works

What if you could identify just about anyone from a photo? A controversial startup is making this possible. Hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agencies are using a face ID service that matches photos against a database of billions of images.

January 22, 20201 min read

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