IBM Jumps on BLM Bus, Drops Failing Facial Biz

IBM has stopped work on facial recognition, because the technology risks “promoting discrimination and racial injustice.”
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Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois. Continue reading Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

Smashing Security #168: The Bitcoin fraud factory

Fraudsters steal millions from those hoping to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, Twitter verifies a fake US politician, and it’s another face palm for facial recognition.
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Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts? Continue reading Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

Clearview, a Startup Probably Holding Your Image, Gets Hacked

Clearview AI, a young, agile, privacy-busting startup, has been hacked in an embarrassing data breach.
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Creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI hacked; client list stolen

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Clearview AI has billions of photos of innocent and unsuspecting users – Its entire list of clients was reportedly stolen by unknown hackers.
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Facial Recognition Start-Up That Sells Data to Police Got Its Client List Stolen

Someone stole the client list of a somewhat obscure company called Clearview AI. While that might not seem like much, the company was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons – it claims that it scrapes the Internet for public images to use… Continue reading Facial Recognition Start-Up That Sells Data to Police Got Its Client List Stolen

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints