BBC: Clearview AI’s CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users’ consent from sites like Facebook  —  Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lena Masri / Reuters: Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find and arrest scores of protesters and even prevent them from protesting  —  A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin’s opponents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: On TikTok, the hashtag #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27 compared with 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos objecting to a potential ban  —  After lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive last week, the app’s users argued that the platform should not be banned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google’s LLMs for its Ghostwriter product  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: Clearview AI’s founder says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users consent from sites like Facebook  —  Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC Lees verder op Tech Meme