Facial recognition technology advancing

Facial recognition technology advancing

YOU POST A PICTURE AND THEPLATFORM CAN IDENTIFY WHO’STHE PICTURE USING FACIALRECOGNITION.BUT PRIVACY EXPERTS SAY MILLIONSOF IMAGES COLLECTED ONLINE BYPHOTO SHARING APPS ARE FUELINGARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENTSURVEILLANCE.ASH-HAR QURAISHI SHOWS US A TOOLTO FIND OUT IF YOUR IMAGES HAVEBEEN HARVESTED FROM CERTAINSITES.PKG"............NATTHE DAY AFTER THE SIEGE ONCAPITOL HILL FACIAL RECOGNITIONUSE SPIKED.

REPORTEDLY THE FBIAND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT USEDTHE TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFYRIOTERS.SOT Liz O’Sullivan -Surveillance TechnologyOversight Project, Director06:37 "This is a technology thatenhances the abilities of policeofficers to the degree of almostsuperheroes."LIZ O’SULLIVAN IS THE DIRECTOROF THE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGYOVERSIGHT PROJECT OR ’STOP’ ANEW YORK BASED CIVIL RIGHTS ANDPRIVACY GROUP.SOT Liz O’Sullivan -Surveillance TechnologyOversight Project, Director07:58 "SUPER HERE Over thesummer we saw protests over aracial justice in the form ofthe Black Lives Matter protestsand FBI agents were able toidentify people based off ofother artifacts that they wereleaving online includiarticles of clothing that theyhad purchased on onlineretailers like Etsy."THIS WEEK RESEARCHERS AT’S.T.O.P’ LAUNCHED’EXPOSING-DOT-A-I’ A NEW FACIALRECOGNITION DETECTION SITE.

ITALLOWS YOU TO MATCH IMAGES FROMTHE ONLINE PHOTO-SHARING SITEAND SEE WHETHER YOUR PHOTOS HAVEBEEN COMPROMISED.https://www.stopspying.org/latest-news/2021/1/31/Exposing.aiSOT 02:12 "Flickr, while theywere under Yahoo created adatabase of more than 100million different photos thathad been posted on Flickr undera Creative Commons license andthey used this as a starterdatabase for artificialintelligence."THOSE DATABASES HAVE BEEN USEDBY RESEARCHERS, LAW ENFORCEMENTAND GOVERNMENTS TO ENHANCEBIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATIONTECHNOLOGY.SOT 04:11 "In fact some of thesedatabases and some of these datasets have been used by Chinesecompanies and are slightly andin some ways implicated to thehuman rights violations and theongoing genocide of the UyghurMuslims.O’SULLIVAN SAYS MOST PEOPLEDON’T EVEN REALIZE THEY’RECONTRIBUTING TO THE AI LEARNING.SOT 05:12 "Artificialintelligence researchers anddevelopers are so starved fornew data sources that they oftenresort to some unsavorypractices some of which involvscraping the Internet regardlessof the terms of service that mayexist to protect your privacy."IN SOME CASES, IT IS AGAINST THELAW.https://www.ilga.gov/legislati/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&ChapterID=57FACEBOOK IS SET TO PAY OUT $650MILLION DOLLARS IN A LANDMARKCLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT TO ABOUT7 MILLION OF IT’S USERS INILLINOIS FOR ALLEGEDLY VIOLATITHE STATE’S STRICT BIOMETRICPRIVACY LAW.

FACEBOOK DENIES ITVIOLATED ANY LAW.09:47 "Facebook has elected fornow not to sell their facialrecognition tool to policeofficers or to the military orto the Chinese government buthere’s absolutely nothingstopping them from doing it.GRAPHIC:ON WEDNESDAY CLEARVIEW AI ACONTROVERSIAL STARTUP WAS FOUNDTO HAVE VIOLATED CANADIAN LAWWHEN IT "collected highlysensitive biometric informationwithout the knowledge or consentof individuals." ENGAGINGWHAT THE GOVERNMENTINVESTIGATION DEEMED TO BE"ILLEGAL MASS SURVEILLANCE.".THE TECH COMPANY ALSO FACESMULTIPLE PRIVACY LAWSUITS HEREIN THE U.S. FOR SCRAPINGBILLIONS OF PHOTOS FROM SOCIALMEDIA AND OTHER PUBLIC SITESUSED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.https://clearview.ai/https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVYnxnFYTFIFo8ysE5Z_vVbP6lTT4XGk_JMYv1dn5vPyig/viewformhttps://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2021/nr-_210203/?=february-2-2021SOT 13:41 "People were arrestedand charged with crimes thatthey did not commit because somemachine told the officers thatthey were the ones behind it."SUPER HERE O’SULLIVAN SAYS IT’SHIGH TIME THAT COMPANIES,GOVERNMENTS AND RESEARCHERS AREHELD TO ACCOUNT.

PEOPLE SHE SADESERVE TO HAVE MORE CONTROLOVER THEIR IMAGES, DATA ANDPRIVACY.IN CHICAGO I’M ASH-HAR QURAISHIREPORTING.TO CHECK IF YOUR IMAGESSPECIFICALLY FROM FLICKR HAVEBEEN COMPROMISED..

GO TO"EXPOSING-DOT-AI."THERE YOU CAN USE YOUR USERNAMPHOTO U-R-L OR HASHTAG TO SEE IFYOUR PHOTOS WERE USED TO BUILDFACIAL RECOGNITION.THE TOOL CREATORS SA