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France Has Ordered Clearview AI To Delete Its Facial Recognition Data:
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been hit with another order by a country's watchdog agency to delete the personal data of its citizens, the latest in a global rebuke by privacy regulators around the world.
On Thursday, France's Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) said Clearview had breached Europe's overarching data protection law, known as GDPR. It gave the company two months to delete the personal information it had collected and stop "unlawful processing" of the data.
The order comes after similar decisions from the UK and Australia in recent weeks. Clearview has built its business by scraping people's photos from the web and social media and indexing them in a vast facial recognition database.
The crackdown follows a series of BuzzFeed News investigations revealing widespread and sometimes unsanctioned use of the company's facial recognition software around the world. In August, BuzzFeed News reported that France's Ministry of the Interior is listed as having run more than 400 searches on Clearview, according to the facial recognition company's internal data. Despite the records, a spokesperson for the agency at the time said it had no information on Clearview.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 04 2022, @08:25PM (1 child)
You only say this because you want the US to have a monopoly on authoritarians and deny this wonderful privilege to other countries.
Some numbers... [papltd.co.uk]
So the US has more than five times the number of cameras (per 100 individuals) than France.
Now after Snowden's revelations in 2013, do you suppose that the US already does what Clerview does and probably much more worser.
Other fun numbers from that link:
Back when TMB was here (just to date it approximately) I posted once posted about (with source links including video) how Walmart banned a guy from all Walmarts for life for daring to open carry. (and I don't mean carrying children) Walmart got the guy's pictures as part of 'trespassing' him. (to verb a noun) Do you suppose Walmart wanted pictures for their security system cameras at all their locations? So they could automatically recognize such a dangerous individual upon setting foot in the entry way?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 05 2022, @01:48PM
A year before I'd actually started boycotting them after getting accosted to show id because a cousin was buying liquor. The following year I ended up at one of the older Walmarts in an area that had trended African-American, and holy shit. The slightly more subtle LP cameras of the bigger/new/whiter stores was out. They had cameras on endcaps staring *DOWN* the aisles and multiple PTZ cameras hanging off the shelves. The whole place felt like a dystopian nightmare (I was thankfully only in there with someone else who had decided they needed to buy electronics, unfortunately after the first Fry's in the region had closed.
This is also one of the reasons I've been rather peeved with the conservatives gleefully flaunting mask laws and getting in people's faces (and yes I've seen that happen in my area, although thankfully not to me.) This is literally the one and only time we will have the benefit of wearing masks in public. Combined with sunglasses and over the ear headwear, we can eliminate positive facial recognition 98 percent of the time during our travels, barring cell phones, or tracking by clothing+license plate recognition. And yet somehow that key benefit to this pandemic is ignored because the politics of it are taking away my right to be facially recorded in public! Who do these people think they are, the Kardashians? Or maybe little honey boo boo?