New York schools are ignoring facial recognition ban

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 Ms. Cat

In December 2020, New York State schools suspended for 18 months the use of facial recognition technology, to study any possible harmful effects on children’s privacy.
New York schools are ignoring facial recognition ban

A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 Ms. Cat

PimEyes is a paid service that finds photos of a person from across the internet, including some the person may not want exposed. “We’re just a tool provider,” its owner said.
A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

An investigation by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. Whoever’s photos have been published on the Internet could already be part of their database.

Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 Ms. Cat

“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux
Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA

Ukraine’s Gory Online Campaign Violates Geneva Convention

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Ms. Cat

Ukraine claims this is being done to sow dissent in Russia. That’s CRAP. This is psychological warfare. It’s intended to traumatize and terrorize. People on the receiving end of this will understand the inhumanity/monstrosity on the part of the persons sending these images to them.
Ukraine’s Gory Online Campaign Violates Geneva Convention

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The gory online campaign Ukraine hopes will sow anti-Putin dissent probably violates the Geneva Conventions

Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers

Ukraine: A new battle in the old war of the “New Normal”

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 Ms. Cat

Ukraine: A new battle in the old war of the “New Normal”

Clearview AI Walks Back Earlier Claims, Is Now Willing To Sell Its Sketchy Product To Anyone With Money And A Pulse

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Ms. Cat

If only Clearview had managed to remain under the radar. If it had, it could have been the stealth privacy assassin multiple entities (both public and private) desire, but are unwilling to admit to using publicly. Even the rest of the facial recognition tech field wants nothing to do with Clearview and the billions of images/data points it has scraped from the public web. Clearview remains alone in its extreme odiousness — a villain rising head and shoulders above its already questionable competition.
Clearview AI Walks Back Earlier Claims, Is Now Willing To Sell Its Sketchy Product To Anyone With Money And A Pulse

Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police:

One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, particularly its investigative arm which has used it to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.