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Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI:
When BuzzFeed News reported earlier this month that Clearview AI had used marketing materials that suggested it was pursuing a "rapid international expansion," the company was dismissive, noting that it was focused on the US and Canada.
The company's client list suggests otherwise. It shows that Clearview AI has expanded to at least 26 countries outside the US, engaging national law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and police forces in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The log also has an entry for Interpol, which ran more than 320 searches. Reached for comment, the worldwide policing agency confirmed that "a small number of officers" in its Crimes Against Children unit had used Clearview's facial recognition app with a 30-day free trial account. That trial has now ended and "there is no formal relationship between Interpol and Clearview," the Interpol General Secretariat said in a statement.
It's unclear how Clearview is vetting potential international clients, particularly in countries with records of human rights violations or authoritarian regimes. In an interview with PBS, Ton-That said Clearview would never sell to countries "adverse to the US," including China, Iran, and North Korea. Asked by PBS if he would sell to countries where being gay is a crime, he didn't answer, stating once again that the company's focus is on the US and Canada.
Clearview, however, has already provided its software to organizations in countries that have laws against LGBTQ individuals, according to its documents. In Saudi Arabia, for example, the documents indicate that Clearview gave access to the Thakaa Center, also known as the AI Center of Advanced Studies, a Riyadh-based research center whose clients include Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Investment. Thakaa, which did not respond to a request for comment, was given access to the software earlier this month, according to the documents.
Previously:
Clearview AI Reports Entire Client List Was Stolen
Canadian Privacy Commissioners to Investigate "Creepy" Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI
Clearview AI Hit with Cease-And-Desist from Google, Facebook Over Facial Recognition Collection
Clearview App Lets Strangers Find Your Name, Info with Snap of a Photo, Report Says
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday February 28 2020, @01:36PM (7 children)
One thing I've been noticing lately is a lot of reporting that takes for granted that Russia and the US are enemies. Putin is trying to undermine US democracy, and that somehow makes the entire nation of Russia an enemy. No, I don't think so. I very much doubt that the average Russian citizen is hankering to go to war with the US. In the 1990s, there was much talk of Russia becoming a friend of the US, and that in the future, we might be asking "who lost Russia?" And now, this says "adversaries of the US" such as ... China? WTF?
Iran's response thus far to the recent provocation of the assassination of General Soleimani, was remarkable. They launched an attack that could have killed a lot of people, but which killed no one. So who is the bigger barbarian in all this? Yeah. At least Iran goes through a formal process of issuing a fatwa before attempting a murder. The decision to assassination of Soleimani was made without much deliberation, in a haphazard fashion.
Why is the media reporting events in this fashion? Do they really think that a war is good for the press? No doubt some of them do think so.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @02:16PM
OK calm down. Try and limit yourself to 2 or at most 3 conspiracies per sentence.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday February 28 2020, @02:47PM
Nationalism is instinctive to idiots.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @03:34PM (1 child)
If you live in America, you should know be smarter than that: Trump said "why wouldn't we want to be friends with Russia?", the democrats and their media outlets have meanwhile been on a 3 year sulk that it was Russia's fault She Lost, not that the people in too many states couldn't stomach her.
So the democrat media has been "Russia, Russia, Russia"; they are going on the assumption that the more they repeat their bullshit, more of it will stick.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @05:26PM
Nice try Comrade.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday February 28 2020, @05:43PM (2 children)
China is definitely an adversary of the US. So is every other government, and a large number of corporations.
It's not clear that China is an enemy of the US, or that the Chinese government is. The Russian government, however, based on reasonable evidence *is* an enemy of the US. This is not a permanent state, but it's been frequently true over much of the last century, and it appears to be true now. It's less certain that they are an enemy of the US government.
An adversary is someone you're competing with. And enemy is someone who, in some sense, desires and acts to destroy you.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @06:55PM
Why would Russia be the enemy of the U.S. Goverment? They own parts of it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @07:06PM
Obviously untrue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_state#United_States_2 [wikipedia.org]