Privacy groups file complaint to EU countries over facial recognition technology
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28/05/2021 - 10:45
People have their faces scanned as they arrive for the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on August 29, 2019 HECTOR RETAMAL AFP/File
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David Coffey with RFI
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Privacy organisations have filed a complaint to regulators in five European countries, including France, over the practices of an online company that has built a powerful facial recognition database using images "scraped" from the web.
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In a statement issued on Thursday by Privacy International, the use of images - including those from people's social media accounts - to offer biometrics services to private companies and law enforcement by tech company Clearview AI "goes far beyond what we could ever expect as online users."