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Adrien Henni @ East-West Digital News 1 place · 08/04/2022 17:09 EDT

Business Insider: Western tech majors tested or used controversial Russian face recognition technology

According to a report published last week by US publication Business Insider, a range of western tech firms are users of FindFace, a controversial face recognition technology developed by Russian startup Ntech Lab.  FindFace matches faces against social media accounts, regardless of privacy rights, among other facial recognition capabilities. Its approach is similar to that developed by US startup Clearview AI, which was recently … Business Insider: Western tech majors tested or used controversial Russian.

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