May 11, 2020

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.

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April 07, 2020

Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics

The suit is about biometrics and children's privacy in Google's education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.

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March 03, 2020

Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images

It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn't.

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February 28, 2020

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?

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February 07, 2020

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.

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January 31, 2020

Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit

A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it's finally done churning through the courts.

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January 28, 2020

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.

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September 26, 2019

Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so

The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people's faceprints - the same law Facebook's battling.

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September 06, 2019

Facebook expands use of face recognition

Facebook's replaced "tag suggestions" with "face recognition" - a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.

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