{"id":8177,"date":"2022-03-14T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/ukraine-offered-tool-to-search-billions-of-faces-2\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:18:04","slug":"ukraine-offered-tool-to-search-billions-of-faces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/ukraine-offered-tool-to-search-billions-of-faces-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine offered tool to search billions of faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p ><b >A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company said.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Facial recognition company Clearview AI has offered its services to the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The company says it has a searchable database of 10 billion faces from across the web.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >But the technology has previously drawn fines from data regulators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;I am pleased to confirm that Clearview AI has made its breakthrough facial recognition technology available to Ukrainian officials to use during the crisis they are facing,&#8221; Chief Executive Hoan Ton-That told the BBC in a statement Explanation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Clearview AI offered its services for free in a letter to the Ukrainian government, first reported by Reuters and available to the BBC. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >It is said that a large part of his database of faces comes from Russian social media sites. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The letter claims that the company has more than two billion images from Vkontakte (VK), a social network sometimes dubbed the &#8220;Facebook of Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The breadth of its Russian coverage makes it broader than a publicly available competing technology, PimEyes, previously used to identify people in war photos, a Clearview AI consultant said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >In the letter, Mr. Ton-That cites a number of potential scenarios where the technology could be useful, including:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<div >\n<ul >\n<li>Identify intruders by matching a photo of them or their ID card <\/li>\n<li>Identification of the dead without fingerprints<\/li>\n<li>Combating Misinformation<\/li>\n<li>Family reunification by identifying people without paperwork<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mr Ton-That said Ukraine started using the technology on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The country&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<div >\n<ul >\n<li>Fixed faces with facial recognition are possible with a \u00a317million fine<\/li>\n<li>The database company must remove snapshots taken in Australia<\/li>\n<li>Legality of online face harvesting challenged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Clearview AI&#8217;s technology has been criticized by data protection officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >In November, the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), imposed a provisional fine of \u00a317million on the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >It was recently fined \u20ac20m (\u00a316.8m) by Italian regulators after it was found to be using &#8220;biometric surveillance techniques&#8221; on people in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >And while its technology is being used by US law enforcement agencies, the company is facing lawsuits in America over its use of images collected from the Internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >At least one critic said there was a risk that facial recognition could misidentify people at checkpoints. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project in New York, told Reuters it&#8217;s possible that &#8220;we&#8217;ll see well-intentioned technology backfire and hurt the very people it&#8217;s supposed to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mr. Ton-That added that Clearview AI should never be used as the sole source of identification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company said. 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