A set of parents and their children in Illinois and California filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago alleging that Meta illegally used their Facebook and Instagram photos to build NameTag, an unreleased face-recognition system for its… Read More "Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems"
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview is not the first company to automate the process of trawling publicly available information. Other intelligence platforms sold to law enforcement, including ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, Penlink’s Tangles, and Fivecast, help investigators uncover aliases and associates and map a person’s digital… Read More "Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online"
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a43d616847560b1128c28ca/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Security_Data%20Broker%20Leak%20Exposes%208%20Million%20Photos%20of%20People%E2%80%99s%20Faces_v1.jpg When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including… Read More "Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces"
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a7e4a6728f891277df706a0/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/MSG-Surveillance-Protests-2196667317.jpg Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City. “MSG and its CEO, James Dolan, have been flagrantly… Read More "New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG"