Senator fears Clearview AI facial recognition could be used on protesters:
Sen. Edward Markey has raised concerns that police and law enforcement agencies have access to controversial facial recognition app Clearview AI in cities where people are protesting the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died two weeks ago while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
[...] "As demonstrators across the country exercise their First Amendment rights by protesting racial injustice, it is important that law enforcement does not use technological tools to stifle free speech or endanger the public," Markey said in a letter to Clearview AI CEO and co-founder Hoan Ton-That.
The threat of surveillance could also deter people from "speaking out against injustice for fear of being permanently included in law enforcement databases," he said.
Markey, who has previously hammered Clearview AI over its sales to foreign governments, use by domestic law enforcement and use in the COVID-19 pandemic, is now asking the company for a list of law enforcement agencies that have signed new contracts since May 25, 2020.
It's also being asked if search traffic on its database has increased during the past two weeks; whether it considers a law enforcement agency's "history of unlawful or discriminatory policing practices" before selling the technology to them; what process it takes to give away free trials; and whether it will prohibit its technology from being used to identify peaceful protestors.
[...] Ton-That said he will respond to the letter from Markey. "Clearview AI's technology is intended only for after-the-crime investigations, and not as a surveillance tool relating to protests or under any other circumstances," he said in an emailed statement.
Previously:
(2020-06-09) IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:30PM
You believe every single excuse presented by the cops, and carefully ignore what your own eyes can see on video, namely that Floyd was not resisting in any way, nor could he given that he was handcuffed and on the ground, when the cop killed him.
Since you continue to make excuses for murder, I'm going to conclude that the reason you don't believe that it's murder is that you agree with the murderer that Floyd should be dead.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.