标题: Warning as Kiwis 'targeted on a grand scale' by Chinese big data firm [打印本页] 作者: tauno 时间: 2020-9-16 21:05:19 标题: Warning as Kiwis 'targeted on a grand scale' by Chinese big data firm
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NZ Police trialled facial recognition tech without clearance
The American firm Clearview AI's system, which is used by hundreds of police departments in the United States and several other countries, is effectively a search engine for faces - billing itself as a crime-fighting tool to identify perpetrators and victims.
Clearview Al, whose early financial backers include New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel, has built a database of about 2.8 billion faces by lifting users' images from social media sites like Facebook, a practice that violates most of these companies' terms of service.