Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 4:26:26 GMT -5
Use of the controversial facial recognition tool Clearview AI — which came under investigation by Facebook for scraping images from its platform in violation of its rules and is being investigated in France, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia — increased 26% on September 7. January, a day after the assault on the Capitol , seat of the United States Congress, by a group of Donald Trump supporters who wanted to prevent the chamber from certifying Joe Biden's electoral victory. The founder of this company, the Australian Hoan Ton-That, confirmed the unusual increase in the use of his tool to the New York Times , which is due to the fact that security forces are taking advantage of the large number of photographs and videos of the assailants.
Even the FBI has launched a call to all security forces in the country and to private users accepting images taken from social networks to find those responsible for the riots. Some local police departments have already acknowledged using this platform to identify suspects, such as a local department in the state of Alabama, in the southeast of the country, according Europe Cell Phone Number List to the Wall Street Journal . The police in Miami (Florida) have also admitted to the New York Times that they are looking for suspects through images on social networks. "We are filtering through all available images and videos from anywhere we can get to , " he told the Times.Deputy Chief of the Miami Police Department Armando Aguilar. "This is the biggest threat I have ever faced in my life.
The peaceful transition of power is a founding principle in this country," the police officer added. A controversial tool reported in France, investigated in the United Kingdom and Australia, and which had to leave Canada Security forces have long used artificial intelligence tools to search databases with official photographs, such as those taken when someone is arrested, those of driving licenses and other official documents. The difference is that Clearview AI offers the possibility of searching among more than 3,000 million photographs extracted from social networks such as Facebook, YouTube and other platforms , which is why they could have broken their privacy conditions and both Google and Facebook have asked them to stop to extract them . Asked if the platform itself was carrying out searches for the assailants on its own, its founder assured that this is not its role.
Even the FBI has launched a call to all security forces in the country and to private users accepting images taken from social networks to find those responsible for the riots. Some local police departments have already acknowledged using this platform to identify suspects, such as a local department in the state of Alabama, in the southeast of the country, according Europe Cell Phone Number List to the Wall Street Journal . The police in Miami (Florida) have also admitted to the New York Times that they are looking for suspects through images on social networks. "We are filtering through all available images and videos from anywhere we can get to , " he told the Times.Deputy Chief of the Miami Police Department Armando Aguilar. "This is the biggest threat I have ever faced in my life.
The peaceful transition of power is a founding principle in this country," the police officer added. A controversial tool reported in France, investigated in the United Kingdom and Australia, and which had to leave Canada Security forces have long used artificial intelligence tools to search databases with official photographs, such as those taken when someone is arrested, those of driving licenses and other official documents. The difference is that Clearview AI offers the possibility of searching among more than 3,000 million photographs extracted from social networks such as Facebook, YouTube and other platforms , which is why they could have broken their privacy conditions and both Google and Facebook have asked them to stop to extract them . Asked if the platform itself was carrying out searches for the assailants on its own, its founder assured that this is not its role.