Law, Biometrics, Closed-circuit television, Privacy, Facial recognition system, Surveillance
5 B.C. police officers used 'illegal' facial recognition tech slammed by privacy commissioners
“What Clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal. The worst part of the argument... is that their corporate interests should prevail over the privacy interests of the people whose images were scraped and then disclosed.”
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OpenThe privacy commissioner of British Columbia has revealed five individual police officers in the province used a controversial facial recognition service that 'illegally' harvested billions of social media images.
“What Clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal. The worst part of the argument... is that their corporate interests should prevail over the privacy interests of the people whose images were scraped and then disclosed.”
https://t.co/nEKa8Zg4M9
Open5 B.C. police officers used 'illegal' facial recognition tech slammed by privacy commissioners
The privacy commissioner of British Columbia has revealed five individual police officers in the province used a controversial facial recognition service that 'illegally' harvested billions ...
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