Ukraine began to use the ClearView AI face recognition software to identify dead Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian nation killed in conflict.
Hoan Ton-to, the general director of the company, told Reuters that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began to use the software in March this year.
The face recognition system used by ClearView AI is controversial, but undeniably effective. With billions of scraped images from the Internet, it can identify almost everyone. According to the tone, Clearview has over two billion photos from only one Russian social media platform – Vkontakte. According to Reuters, Ton-which sent a letter to the Ukrainian authorities and offered help from Clearview AI. The letter stated that this technology can help to locate secret Russian agents, re -combined refugees with their families and overthrow disinformation. ClearView AI software is reported as highly effective, even if there is injuries or distribution.
According to reports, Ukraine now uses this face recognition software for free, while the same service has not been extended to Russia. Russia was widely punished for illegal annexation and more and more brutal tactics that are examined as potential war crimes. The Russian army attacked not only the Ukrainian army, but also civilians and even humanitarian corridors, which were organized to help people escaping in conflict. Many private companies have decided to suspend or limit their activities in Russia, and many of them also help Ukraine in areas such as cyber security and access to satellite access to the Internet.
Clearview AI help can help a company that is used for criticism, get a positive press. The company has some potential far -right links in addition to dystopia and invasive use of mass scraped data from the entire network. “Common law has never recognized the right to privacy for your face,” says Ekland, lawyer AI Clearview. After helping clients, including the neo -Nazi troll, Andrew Auernheimer, Ekeland gained publicity as a “troll lawyer”.
ClearView AI is increasingly falling on the global authorities, which more and more often tightened their hugs of this technology. The Commissioner's Office for Information (ICO) in November 2021 was punished by ClearView AI for over 17 million pounds and ordered the company to delete personal data that has British citizens and ceased further processing. Oaic came to the same conclusion as ICO and ordered ClearView and the destruction of biometric data collected about Australians and cessation of further collection. “I believe that the act of publishing an image on the social media website does not clearly indicate the consent to collect the image by an unknown third page for commercial use,” said Australia Angelene Falk Information Commissioner.
After the raids of the US ClearView AI, the police boasted that the use of face recognition software increased by 26%. ClearView AI in Ukraine can be a positive case report, but it is not clear whether it is enough to discuss privacy problems.
