2022-05-10
Major news from the ACLU v Clearview suit: the company is permanently banned from selling access to its facial recognition tool to US businesses + private entities. It's also banned from selling access to law enforcement in Illinois for at least 5 years https://www.aclu.org/...
Washington Post
Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses
2021-07-01
New: 5 federal agencies said they didn't use Clearview AI use in a new gov watchdog report on facial recognition. But...... this contradicts our previous reporting: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police
2021-06-30
The Gov Accountability Office released a report today about federal use of facial recognition. Parts of it are based on self-reported survey data from these agencies. But there's a discrepancy when it comes to self-reporting use Clearview AI https://www.gao.gov/...
Washington Post
GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies
Black Lives Matter protesters, Jan. 6 rioters and regular travelers are among those targeted by agencies using the tech, including the IRS and the Postal Service
2021-04-07
Update, it was @DocR0cket who filed this amazing public record request and got this set of docs!! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
Report: employees at 1,803 public agencies in the US used Clearview AI for ~340K facial recognition searches without informing the public or their departments
We've created a searchable table of 1800+ publicly funded agencies that are listed as having used the facial recognition tool Clearview AI, per data we've obtained. Reporting this, by contacting every agency in the chart, took 9 months. Here's the story: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
BuzzFeed News
Report: employees at 1,803 public agencies in the US used Clearview AI for ~340K facial recognition searches without informing the public or their departments
2021-04-05
With this in mind.... an ode to my first phone.... the beautiful lg chocolate in cerulean blue https://www.lgnewsroom.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nikkei Asia
LG Electronics says it is terminating its smartphone business, which has lost money for years
South Korea group faced lack of in-house chip supply and rise of Chinese rivals — SEOUL — LG Electronics said Monday that its board decided to terminate the company's loss-making...
2021-02-09
Thinking about this post I wrote last year where a pretty big account was running *ads* for vax-misinfo pamphlets and FB left it up even after I told them about it 🥴 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Facebook expands policies to take down more posts with vaccine-related misinformation, including assertions that vaccines cause autism
Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions …