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Climate-friendly electricity sees big battery projects soar again for 2024
2 weeks ago

Climate-friendly electricity sees big battery projects soar again for 2024

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Batteries are “a really obvious solution” to reducing need …

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Making a $1B investment in the US? Trump pledges expedited permits — but there are hurdles
1 month ago

Making a $1B investment in the US? Trump pledges expedited permits — but there are hurdles

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction worth more than $1 billion. In a post on his Truth Social site Tuesday, Trump said anyone making a $1 billion investment in the United States “will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals.” “GET …

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The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
1 month, 4 weeks ago

The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests

Wired  

“There are lots of different tools that are available to law enforcement. Indeed, the legal landscape surrounding how law enforcement can use surveillance technologies has been hazy, explained Beth Haroules, a staff attorney for the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, largely because the law hasn’t kept up with the pace with technological development. Tushar Jois, a …

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Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces
4 months, 1 week ago

Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces

The Independent  

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Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit

The Independent  

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More than half of Floridians oppose abortion bans. Will they push back at the polls?
2 years, 6 months ago

More than half of Floridians oppose abortion bans. Will they push back at the polls?

LA Times  

Protesters listen to speeches and display their signs on June 24, 2022, at North Straub Park in St. Petersburg, Fla. For Wendy Vargas, the recent elimination of a constitutional right to abortion — and the banning of the procedure in many Republican-controlled states — is an affront to her values as both a woman and an American. Everything is going …

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Clearview AI Fined $9.5 Million By UK Watchdog, Ordered To Delete User’s Data
2 years, 7 months ago

Clearview AI Fined $9.5 Million By UK Watchdog, Ordered To Delete User’s Data

News 18  

The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK on Monday fined facial recognition surveillance firm Clearview AI more than 7.5 million pounds for using images of people in the UK and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition. Clearview AI has collected more than 20 …

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Clearview AI fined £7.5m by watchdog and ordered to delete UK data
2 years, 7 months ago

Clearview AI fined £7.5m by watchdog and ordered to delete UK data

The Independent  

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Here's Why Clearview AI Agreed to Restrict Use Of Facial Images By Companies
2 years, 8 months ago

Here's Why Clearview AI Agreed to Restrict Use Of Facial Images By Companies

News 18  

– The facial recognition startup Clearview AI agreed to restrictions on how businesses can use its database of billions of facial images, to resolve a lawsuit it accusing it of collecting people's photos without permission. Clearview AI, based in New York, can still work with federal government agencies, including immigration authorities, as well as state government agencies outside Illinois. They …

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Face scanner firm Clearview AI agrees to limits to settle lawsuit
2 years, 8 months ago

Face scanner firm Clearview AI agrees to limits to settle lawsuit

The Hindu  

The facial recognition startup Clearview AI agreed to restrictions on how businesses can use its database of billions of facial images, to resolve a lawsuit it accusing it of collecting people's photos without permission. Under a settlement filed on Monday in an Illinois state court in Chicago, Clearview AI will stop granting paid or free access to its database to …

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Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement
2 years, 8 months ago

Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent. A prominent attorney who was defending Clearview against the lawsuit said the company is “pleased to put this litigation behind it.” “The settlement does not require any material change …

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Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police
2 years, 9 months ago

Face scanner Clearview AI aims to branch out beyond police

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses. The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would …

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Ukraine war upends Biden’s agenda on energy, climate change
2 years, 10 months ago

Ukraine war upends Biden’s agenda on energy, climate change

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As Russian troops move deeper into Ukraine, President Joe Biden is taking steps to rein in rising energy costs even if those moves run counter to his agenda for addressing climate change. Banning Russian imports could restrict global oil supplies and “raise prices at the gas pump for Americans,’' White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. A bill …

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Suspect arrested in mall parking lot shooting that injured 3
2 years, 11 months ago

Suspect arrested in mall parking lot shooting that injured 3

Associated Press  

BUTLER, Pa. — A man has been arrested in a shooting in a western Pennsylvania mall parking lot that injured thee people, authorities said. State police in Butler County said multiple shots were fired at about 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Rural King farm supply store parking lot at the Clearview Mall. Three injured males, two Butler men aged 19 …

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EPA releases $1B to clean up toxic waste sites in 24 states
3 years ago

EPA releases $1B to clean up toxic waste sites in 24 states

Associated Press  

Nearly 50 toxic waste sites around the U.S. will be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will get a funding boost, as federal environmental officials announced Friday a $1 billion infusion to the Superfund program. The money comes from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last month and will help officials …

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Australia regulator demands face-scanning firm delete photos
3 years, 2 months ago

Australia regulator demands face-scanning firm delete photos

Associated Press  

An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said Wednesday that the company breached Australians’ privacy by pulling their personal data from the web and disclosing it through its facial recognition …

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Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging

Hindustan Times  

Facebook, which has changed its company name to Meta, has announced plans to shut down the facial recognition system used to tag people in photos and videos posted on the platform for about a decade. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said Jerome Pesenti, Meta’s vice-president, artificial intelligence. Facebook …

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Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
3 years, 3 months ago

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

Wired  

Clearview AI has stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to peer into our lives. Clearview has collected billions of photos from across websites that include Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and uses AI to identify a particular person in images. The company’s cofounder and CEO, Hoan Ton-That, …

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Dutch police likely used controversial facial recognition software despite minister’s denial: Report
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch police likely used controversial facial recognition software despite minister’s denial: Report

NL Times  

A leaked software log from the debated facial recognition software Clearview AI showed that Dutch police officers used the program to identify suspects, the Reformatorisch Dagblad reported. In April 2020, Minister of Justice Ferd Grapperhaus denied that Dutch authorities used the software. Yet, based on Clearview AI logs the Dutch police used the software between 50 to 100 times between …

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European privacy groups challenge facial scan firm Clearview
3 years, 7 months ago

European privacy groups challenge facial scan firm Clearview

Associated Press  

LONDON — Privacy campaign groups filed legal complaints Thursday with European regulators against Clearview AI, alleging the facial recognition technology it provides to law enforcement agencies and businesses breaches stringent European Union privacy rules. The complaints say Clearview didn’t have any legal basis to collect and process this data under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which covers facial …

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States push back against use of facial recognition by police
3 years, 8 months ago

States push back against use of facial recognition by police

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button. “It’s one of those rare issues that’s seen bipartisan support, in that nobody wants to be tracked …

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Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition
3 years, 9 months ago

Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Last month, Virginia lawmakers quietly passed one of the most restrictive bans in the country on the use of facial recognition technology. The legislation, which won unusually broad bipartisan support, prohibits all local law enforcement agencies and campus police departments from purchasing or using facial recognition technology unless it is expressly authorized by the state legislature. Aird …

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Facial recognition company sued by California activists
3 years, 10 months ago

Facial recognition company sued by California activists

Associated Press  

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Civil liberties activists are suing a company that provides facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies and private companies around the world, contending that Clearview AI illegally stockpiled data on 3 billion people without their knowledge or permission. The lawsuit says the company has built “the most dangerous” facial recognition database in the nation, has fielded requests …

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U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers
3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers

The Hindu  

U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month. Sheldon said he provided the FBI possible names of several people in the violent mob thanks to a facial recognition program he purchased. Markey last year …

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