Clearview AI

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Don't get involved with Clearview's dodgy data

Clearview AI are in the spotlight again, after a pitch deck they've been sharing with investors was leaked to the Washington Post. The slide deck included a list of potential commercial business partners that included dating apps, ride hailing apps, even a baby sitting company. Their list was speculative, but concerning. So, we're asking those companies to pledge that they will never work with Clearview, or use their dodgy database.

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The Clearview/Ukraine partnership - How surveillance companies exploit war

Clearview announced it will offer its surveillance tech to Ukraine. It seems no human tragedy is off-limits to surveillance companies looking to sanitise their image.

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All we want for Christmas is... Clearview AI to be banned (and looks like it's happening)!

Bit by bit regulators across the world are chipping off the toxic business model that Clearview AI relies on.

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The ICO’s announcement about Clearview AI is a lot more than just a £17 million fine

Following PI’s submissions before the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as well as other European regulators, the ICO has announced its provisional intent to fine facial recognition company Clearview AI. But this is more than just a regulatory action.

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Victory! A Clearview update: some (provisionally) good news from the UK

The ICO has provisionally issued a £17 million fine against facial recognition company Clearview AI.

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Victory! The ICO provisionally issues £17 million fine against facial recognition company Clearview AI

Following PI's submissions before the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), as well as other European regulators, the ICO has today announced its provisional intent to fine Clearview AI.

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Podcast: The end of privacy? The spread of facial recognition

A year ago on Monday the New York Times published an article, by a fantastic tech journalist called Kashmir Hill, about a facial recognition company called Clearview AI called 'The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It' .

This episode we talk to a range of experts and journalist about who are Clearview? What are they doing? Why is their business model so problematic? And is the problem Clearview specific? Or is systemic?

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Podcast: Protest surveillance: before, during, and after

With huge numbers of people out on the streets standing up for their rights in the US and Hong Kong, and around the world - we take a look at the surveillance tools police and security forces round the world have been using to monitor people as they exercise their civil rights.