It’s about time facial recognition tech firms took a look in the mirror | John Naughton

Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service

Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) slapped a £7.5m fine on a smallish tech company called Clearview AI for “using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition”. The ICO also issued an …

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