#SocialMedia #DataScraping #Privacy #DataProtection #Clearview #FacialRecognition: "The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and 11 of its international data protection and privacy counterparts have released a joint statement to address the issue of data scraping on social media platforms and other publicly accessible sites.

Data scraping technologies, which are being increasingly used to collect and process vast amounts of individuals’ personal information from the internet, raise significant privacy concerns as these technologies can be exploited for purposes including monetisation through reselling data to third-party websites, including to malicious actors, private analysis or intelligence gathering.

In recent years, the OAIC has seen increased reports of mass data scraping from social media applications and other websites that host publicly accessible personal information. This type of activity was evidenced in a joint investigation by the OAIC and the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office into the personal information handling practices of Clearview AI, Inc. Following the joint investigation, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner made a determination finding that Clearview AI, Inc. had breached Australians’ privacy."

https://www.oaic.gov.au/newsroom/global-expectations-of-social-media-platforms-and-other-sites-to-safeguard-against-unlawful-data-scraping

#DHS #FacialRecognition #ClearView #Surveillance #Biometrics: "The Baker investigation provides a rare insight into how HSI is using facial recognition tools like Clearview AI to quickly chase down new child exploitation leads. But HSI is also using this type of technology in an unprecedented three-week operation to solve years-old crimes that’s led to hundreds of identifications of children and abusers, according to Jim Cole, who spent over two decades on fighting crimes against minors for the HSI and who pushed the initiative before retiring earlier this year. Cole told Forbes the previously unreported task force started operating out of the HSI Cyber Crime Center in mid-July and ended on August 4.

Jim Cole, former HSI child exploitation investigator
“No single effort like this has resulted in that amount of identifications in such a short period of time,” Cole told Forbes. “The tech used can assimilate the data and put that puzzle together. Before, we didn’t have the pieces.”

HSI declined to confirm or comment on the operations’ existence.

Cole declined to name the tools that were used, but sources with knowledge of the operation told Forbes one of them was the controversial facial recognition technology created by Clearview AI. The New York City–based startup claims to have amassed a database of more than 30 billion images scraped without permission from places such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. HSI has signed multiple contracts with Clearview worth up to $2 million, and Clearview has previously said its tech was used by HSI to investigate child exploitation."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/07/dhs-ai-facial-recognition-solving-child-exploitation-cold-cases/

Die österreichische #Datenschutzbehörde hat entschieden: #Clearview #AI, das Unternehmen, das #Gesichtserkennungssoftware an #Strafverfolgungsbehörden in den USA verkauft, darf nicht länger biometrische Daten des Beschwerdeführers verarbeiten und muss ihre bestehenden Daten löschen. Die Entscheidung folgt ähnlichen Beschlüssen in Italien, England, Frankreich und Griechenland, allerdings wurde keine Geldstrafe verhängt.

https://noyb.eu/de/clearview-ai-oesterreich-als-illegal-eingestuft-aber-keine-strafe-verhaengt

@cubicgarden circling back to your 2020 #GDPR request to #ClearView just came across this https://noyb.eu/en/clearview-ai-data-use-deemed-illegal-austria-however-no-fine-issued That's the fifth country deeming Clearview's mo illegal wrt GDPR.

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC.
Clearview's system allows a law enforcement customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC.
Clearview's system allows a law enforcement customer to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
It then provides links to where matching images appear online. It is considered one of the most powerful and accurate facial recognition companies in the world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

Tutti siamo su Clear AI. Soprattutto le persone che pubblicano foto sui social network

La #startup di riconoscimento facciale #Clearview #AI ha raccolto quasi 30 miliardi di foto dai #socialmedia, riporta la #BBC, citando Hoan Ton-That, fondatore e CEO dell’azienda.

Inoltre, il #sistema ha elaborato circa un milione di query di ricerca per i servizi di polizia statunitensi. La #pubblicazione rileva che i proprietari delle foto non hanno acconsentito al loro utilizzo nel #sistema.

#redhotcyber #informationsecurity #ethicalhacking #dataprotection #hacking #cybersecurity #cybercrime #cybersecurityawareness #cybersecuritytraining #cybersecuritynews #privacy #infosecurity

https://www.redhotcyber.com/post/tutti-siamo-su-clear-ai-soprattutto-le-persone-che-pubblicano-foto-sui-social-network/

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Critics argue that the police's use of Clearview puts everyone into a "perpetual police line-up".
"Whenever they have a photo of a suspect, they will compare it to your face," says Matthew Guariglia from the @eff says. "It's far too invasive.""

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011
#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Critics argue that the police's use of Clearview puts everyone into a "perpetual police line-up".
"Whenever they have a photo of a suspect, they will compare it to your face," says Matthew Guariglia from the @eff says. "It's far too invasive.""
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011
#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police

"Critics argue that the police's use of Clearview puts everyone into a "perpetual police line-up".

"Whenever they have a photo of a suspect, they will compare it to your face," says Matthew Guariglia from the @eff says. "It's far too invasive.""

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport #reclaimyourface

RT @CarissaVeliz
#Facialrecognition firm #Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US #police.

It has 30bn images scraped online without users' permission.

Clearview has been fined millions of dollars for breaches of #privacy, but clearly, that's not enough.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65057011

#Clearview #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #DataProtection: "A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company's CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a "perpetual police line-up," even for people who haven't done anything wrong.

The company, Clearview AI, boasts of its potential for identifying rioters at the January 6 attack on the Capitol, saving children being abused or exploited, and helping exonerate people wrongfully accused of crimes. But critics point to privacy violations and wrongful arrests fueled by faulty identifications made by facial recognition, including cases in Detroit and New Orleans, as cause for concern over the technology.

Clearview took photos without users' knowledge, its CEO Hoan Ton-That acknowledged in an interview last month with the BBC. Doing so allowed for the rapid expansion of the company's massive database, which is marketed on its website to law enforcement as a tool "to bring justice to victims.""

@ant_pruitt Man spends week in jail after #Clearview #AI misidentifies him as a luxury purse thief and police get a warrant for his arrest using - wait for it "EWarrant" 3rd party software . Absolutely TERRIFYING https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=A4M-X48Te67MyoinZ2ja-2KZe7GKRJRCkdhTQWlrKV_A-pHaTye3U_sQyEHpPcjqb0DdzhG4nNh-hNQn-EPwHBXr91SutJX_YulZYDSvFeerjMqzv_-5f7XTF_MK9TqYDFF7aBcNYmpZLhwqlqqz8WBSF_v7VHv2KY5JM8riPIM9W4DnLQxO7lQsl0C6TLqGwJVclyZqSFN-47b_wG1-A36MHIHibWzOKuK-ZZKSIu-_NhLdyLJE1oBcZRxdNCCi-LHdbOZnk_eGJDUbfdCldvlQ87bmLPiu6O7vGtrouTk5Q9aFpg88GrhYMWf69QXk-aPXbZkXf42C3AQVS3dF5N1i5kGQtBpE4j4Ah7s&smid=url-share

annamo bbbene!
https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2021/08/27/riconoscimento-facciale-polizia-clearview-ai/
#clearview

#Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4?utm_source=reddit.com

#Clearview #AI: database con 30 miliardi di foto https://www.punto-informatico.it/clearview-ai-database-30-miliardi-foto/

#Clearview #AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC

"CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as #facebook taken without users' permissions.
The company has been repeatedly fined millions of dollars in #Europe and #Australia for breaches of privacy.
Critics argue that the police's use of Clearview puts everyone into a "perpetual police line-up".
"Whenever they have a photo of a suspect, they will compare it to your face," says Matthew Guariglia from the @eff says. "It's far too invasive.""

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

#Surveillance #faceID #Überwachung #police #netzpolitik #antireport

Facial recognition: #Clearview used nearly 1 million times by US police. It now has 30 billion images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011 #ReclaimYourFace

#USA #Clearview #Surveillance #FacialRecognition: "Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC

CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissions.

The company has been repeatedly fined millions of dollars in Europe and Australia for breaches of privacy.

Critics argue that the police's use of Clearview puts everyone into a "perpetual police line-up"."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

Welcome to #Clearview #AI that has been used used nearly 1m times by US police.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011