Australia, UK Open Probe Into Clearview Over Data Privacy

Australian and British privacy regulators opened a joint probe into Clearview AI, saying they want to examine how the company's facial-recognition technology uses people's data, just days after the company suspended operations in Canada. From a report: The Australian Information Commissioner and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they will focus on the company's use of "scraped" data and biometrics of individuals. Clearview is facing growing scrutiny of the billions of images it has scraped from social media platforms and how the New York-based company shares those with law enforcement agencies. It suspended a contract with its last Canadian client, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, after regulators there said they were investigating allegations Clearview collected personal information without consent and shared it with police. Clearview will cooperate with the U.K. and Australian regulators, Chief Executive Officer Hoan Ton-That said in a statement. The company searches publicly available photos from the Internet in accordance with applicable laws, he said.

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[Synonymous Cowered]

This is slashdot, where the motto is "stop complaining and submit a patch". Or in this case, submit an article. Might I recommend you submit an article on how the covid 7-day death average reached zero today, just as you predicted:
https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]

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[_merlin]

What? Australia's just started antagonising China by issuing travel warnings about "risk of arbitrary arrest" and recommending Australians in Hong Kong reassess their need to be there. Yeah, we announced closer defence ties with India the other day, which pissed off the US, but it didn't make China happy, either.

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[youngone]

Australia investigates alleged Chinese plot to install spy MP - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says allegations of a plot to plant a Chinese spy in Canberra's parliament are "deeply disturbing". The allegations...

Pffff, amateurs. [rnz.co.nz]

But then that is The New Zealand National Party who are a bunch of whores. They still haven't told us who the Chinese government is replacing Jian Yang with.

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[_merlin]

If anything that list of links shows that the Australian government is resisting even the appearance of links to the Party.

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[vlad30]

Most facial recognition tech is prone to false positives and too easily fooled so unless you have an army of humans to verify the results it is useless for anything you listed. Even licences plate scanners are becoming useless against actual criminals just google novelty licence plate