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Ukraine Reportedly Adopts Clearview AI to Track Russian Invaders

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 15 2022, @06:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the are-we-for-or-against-Clearview-now? dept.

upstart writes:

Ukraine reportedly adopts Clearview AI to track Russian invaders:

Ukraine is reportedly using Clearview AI technologies to track "people of interest" during the Russian invasion.

On March 13, Reuters reported that the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine had adopted the firm's facial recognition engine.

Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That offered the US company's assistance to Kyiv, and according to the news outlet, the AI tech is being used to "potentially vet people of interest at checkpoints, among other uses," for free.

The startup has not offered the same to Russia, of which President Putin calls the war a "special military operation."

Clearview offers facial recognition technologies to law enforcement for criminal investigations. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded the company a patent in January for using publicly-available data -- including mugshots, social media profiles, and news sites -- to match "similar photos using its proprietary facial recognition algorithm."

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 15 2022, @01:41PM (#1229303)

    I applaud Russian efforts to keep the world free from Clearview and wish Putin success in his special military operation.

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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Tuesday March 15 2022, @10:07PM

    by Username (4557) on Tuesday March 15 2022, @10:07PM (#1229476)

    Yeah, I'm not sure if this article is astroturf that looks like propaganda or if it's just propaganda that didn't vet the the likeability of the company involved. I just know they did a really bad job.