Twitter Tells Facial Recognition Trailblazer to Stop Using Site’s Photos

Twitter said Clearview AI, whose app is spreading in law enforcement, was violating its policies. Lawmakers also expressed privacy concerns. Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. A mysterious company that has licensed its powerful facial recognition technology to hundreds of law enforcement agencies is facing attacks from Capitol Hill and from at least…

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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk.

Submitted  by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. By Nick Wingfield May 22, 2018 SEATTLE — In late 2016, Amazon introduced a new online service that could help identify faces and other objects in images, offering it to anyone at a low cost through its giant cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services. Not long after,…

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