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Privacy groups file complaint to EU countries over facial recognition technology
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28/05/2021 - 10:45 People have their faces scanned as they arrive for the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on August 29, 2019 HECTOR RETAMAL AFP/File Text by: David Coffey with RFI 3 min Privacy organisations have filed a complaint to regulators in five European countries, including France, over the practices of an online company that has built a powerful facial recognition database using images scraped from the web. Advertising Read more
In a statement issued on Thursday by Privacy International, the use of images - including those from people s social media accounts - to offer biometrics services to private companies and law enforcement by tech company Clearview AI goes far beyond what we could ever expect
Published 27 May 2021
European privacy groups accuse the facial scan company of stockpiling biometric data on billions of people without their permission. The firm’s database contains images “scraped” from websites, including social media.
Privacy campaign groups on Thursday moved against Clearview AI before European regulators, filing a complaint over services the company provides to law enforcement agencies.
The facial recognition firm has built a sizeable database of billions of images “scraped” from the web, including from people’s social media accounts. Critics have raised concerns that its technology could be open to abuse and lead to the type of mass public surveillance seen in countries like China.