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  • The Stasi Could Only Dream ...

    From 186282@ud0s4.net@186283@ud0s4.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.privacy,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Monday, October 07, 2024 21:45:01
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13931611/Policing-tool-controversial-facial-recognition-authorities-rarely-admit-using-linked-thousand-criminal-investigations.html

    A controversial facial recognition company that's built a
    massive photographic dossier of the world's people for
    use by law enforcement, has been used in more than 1,000
    police investigations without authorities announcing use
    of the software.

    Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy
    advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview
    AI has continued to rack up new contracts with police
    departments and other government agencies.


    The collection of images - approximately 14 photos for
    each of the 7 billion people on the entire planet,
    scraped from social media and other sources makes the
    company's extensive surveillance system, already the
    most elaborate of its kind.

    But now it is law enforcement who are under scrutiny
    after failing to be transparent as to how the tech
    is being used.

    Sometimes police stated how suspects were identified
    through a witness or that 'a police officer made the
    identification.'

    . . .

    Even Orwell didn't envision anything like this ...
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  • From D. Ray@d@ray to talk.politics.misc,alt.privacy,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 18:26:17
    From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

    186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13931611/Policing-tool-controversial-facial-recognition-authorities-rarely-admit-using-linked-thousand-criminal-investigations.html

    A controversial facial recognition company that's built a
    massive photographic dossier of the world's people for
    use by law enforcement, has been used in more than 1,000
    police investigations without authorities announcing use
    of the software.

    Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy
    advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview
    AI has continued to rack up new contracts with police
    departments and other government agencies.


    The collection of images - approximately 14 photos for
    each of the 7 billion people on the entire planet,
    scraped from social media and other sources makes the
    company's extensive surveillance system, already the
    most elaborate of its kind.

    But now it is law enforcement who are under scrutiny
    after failing to be transparent as to how the tech
    is being used.

    Sometimes police stated how suspects were identified
    through a witness or that 'a police officer made the
    identification.'

    Wear the mask. COVID is not over, you know.
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