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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta’s personal information protection law ruled partly unconstitutional | Globalnews.ca

A judge with Alberta's Court of King's Bench has ruled that parts of the province's personal information protection legislation are unconsti

Parts of Alberta’s personal information protection legislation have been ruled unconstitutional. But the ruling from Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby also upheld an order to stop an American facial recognition company from collecting images of Albertans. Clearview AI scrapes the internet and social media for images of people and adds them to a database, which it markets to law enforcement agencies as a facial recognition tool.

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

But as ever-larger, more concentrated corporations captured more of their regulators, we’ve essentially forgotten that there are domains of law other than copyright — that is, other than the kind of law that corporations use to enrich themselves.

Copyright has some uses in creative labor markets, but it’s no substitute for labor law. Likewise, copyright might be useful at the margins when it comes to protecting your biometric privacy, but it’s no substitute for privacy law.

When the AI companies say, “There’s no way to use copyright to fix AI’s facial recognition or labor abuses without causing a lot of collateral damage,” they’re not lying — but they’re also not being entirely truthful.

If they were being truthful, they’d say, “There’s no way to use copyright to fix AI’s facial recognition problems, that’s something we need a privacy law to fix.”

If they were being truthful, they’d say, “There’s no way to use copyright to fix AI’s labor abuse problems, that’s something we need labor laws to fix.

-How To Think About Scraping: In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best

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[gwydionmisha]

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump

[thechanelmuse]

My Book Review

"If you're not paying for it, you're the product."

Your Face Belongs to Us is a terrifying yet interesting journey through the world of invasive surveillance, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and biometric data collection by way of the birth and rise of a company called Clearview AI — a software used by law enforcement and government agencies in the US yet banned in various countries. A database of 75 million images per day.

The writing is easy flowing investigative journalism, but the information (as expected) is...chile 👀. Lawsuits and court cases to boot. This book reads somewhat like one of my favorite books of all-time, How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt (my review's here), in which it delves into the history from birth to present while learning the key players along the way.

Here's an excerpt that keeps you seated for this wild ride:

“I was in a hotel room in Switzerland, six months pregnant, when I got the email. It was the end of a long day and I was tired but the email gave me a jolt. My source had unearthed a legal memo marked “Privileged & Confidential” in which a lawyer for Clearview had said that the company had scraped billions of photos from the public web, including social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, to create a revolutionary app. Give Clearview a photo of a random person on the street, and it would spit back all the places on the internet where it had spotted their face, potentially revealing not just their name but other personal details about their life. The company was selling this superpower to police departments around the country but trying to keep its existence a secret.”

[egnaroo]

AI in healthcare might be risky business moving into 2022

AI in healthcare might be risky business moving into 2022 🩺

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that has been growing steadily in the past years and has made its way into a number of fields and improved the quality of service. One of the areas where it is being implemented gradually is healthcare. From diagnostics to robot-assisted surgery, there is huge potential for AI to be very beneficial to healthcare providers to give their patients…

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[publicuniversalenemy]

just your regular reminder that Clearview AI is fucking terrifying and isn’t technology that should be in the hands of anyone, not the police and not the private sector. also friendly reminder that it’s largely unknown the the public, the creator and entire company is shady as fuck, and it’s completely unregulated. (there is a lovely free podcast from the NYT that covers it real well, it’s about half an hour long, and i absolutely recommend listening to it)

[mirrorontheworld]

Clearview AI, le cauchemar de la reconnaissance faciale devient réalité

Imaginée et financée par des personnalités de la droite américaine radicale, l’application de la société Clearview AI permet d’identifier une personne en comparant une photo à toutes celles postées sur Internet. La société vient de signer un contrat avec les services américains de l’immigration.

[dr-archeville]

Facial Recognition: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [source]

“John Oliver takes a look at facial recognition technology, how it’s used by private companies and law enforcement, and why it can be dangerous.”  [21 mins]