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US activists sue facial recognition firm claiming it snatched their identities


Facial recognition software company a new A new lawsuit claims, Clearview AI has appropriated the identities of billions of ‘unsuspecting’ people from websites including social media platforms to sell to police, chilling the right to free speech and endangering immigrants and people of colour. Dreamstime/TNS
SAN JOSE, California: Facial recognition software company Clearview AI has appropriated the identities of billions of “unsuspecting” people from websites including social media platforms to sell to police, chilling the right to free speech and endangering immigrants and people of color, a new lawsuit claims.
“Clearview also scrapes images of people that were uploaded without their knowledge or consent, including images posted by friends or relatives and even images of people who inadvertently appear in the backgrounds of photographs taken by strangers,” the suit filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court alleged. ....

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RCMP, Armed Forces Pensions Invested In Private U.S. Immigrant Detention


 | Updated February 24, 2021
TORONTO The Crown corporation that controls pensions for Canadian public service workers, Canadian Armed Forces soldiers and RCMP officers invested millions of dollars last year in American companies that operate private prisons and immigrant detention centres.
PSP Investments, which invests pensions for federal government employees, owns shares worth US$2.7 million in The GEO Group and about US$2 million in CoreCivic, according to a quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Feb. 12.
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This Aug. 16, 2018 file photo shows the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Miss.
A spokesperson for a union that represents Canadian public sector workers says its members are “categorically opposed” to these pension fund investments. ....

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