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Alibaba Invests in Chinese Facial-Recognition Startup

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is leading a $600 million funding round in SenseTime, which makes surveillance systems using facial recognition for law enforcement and commercial applications......»»

Category: smallbizSource: wsjApr 9th, 2018

This Chinese Facial Recognition Surveillance Company Is Now the World’s Most Valuable AI Startup

SenseTime Group has raised $600 million from Alibaba Group Holding and other investors. SenseTime Group has raised $600 million from Alibaba Group Holding baba .....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneApr 9th, 2018

SoftBank"s Vision Fund to invest $1 billion in China AI startup: Bloomberg

SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund is seeking to invest almost $1 billion in SenseTime Group Ltd, a Chinese facial recognition technology developer, Bloomberg reported on Friday......»»

Category: topSource: reutersJul 20th, 2018

The Most Valuable Artificial Intelligence Startup in the World Just Raised $600 Million

SenseTime's facial recognition technology is used in fields including security, retail, and autonomous driving......»»

Category: topSource: incApr 9th, 2018

In China, Facial Recognition Tech Is Watching You

Local Chinese governments are using cameras and A.I. made by SenseTime and Megvii to identify citizens on the street. Minority Report? No—reality. AT A CROSSING IN SHENZHEN, a giant s.....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneOct 28th, 2018

Amazon questioned over contract with company that offered "real-time Uighur warnings"

Amazon faces questions from senators over a reported contract with Dahua, a Chinese security camera company that touted on its website the ability to alert police when its facial recognition software identifies members of the Uighur ethnic group......»»

Category: topSource: latimesFeb 10th, 2021

A controversial facial-recognition company working with police departments across the US is reportedly connected to white nationalism and the far-right

CBS A software startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube — is selling its tool to la.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderApr 8th, 2020

Astra facial recognition tech enters Japan market via NTT East

Taiwan-based startup Astra began to cooperate with Japanese telecom carrier NTT East .....»»

Category: topSource: digitimesMar 11th, 2020

Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from social media to build a facial recognition app that can ID anyone — here"s everything you need to know about the mysterious company (FB, GOOGL, TWTR)

Alex Wong/Getty Images A software startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube &mdas.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderMar 6th, 2020

Ashton Kutcher dropped a big hint that he may be a user of a controversial facial recognition app while eating hot wings on YouTube last year

First We Feast/Complex A startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube — created software that matches people with publicly available photos to identify them. The .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderMar 5th, 2020

A billionaire said he spied on his daughter"s date using a secretive and controversial facial recognition app that the company insisted was only used by law enforcement

Patrick McMullan/Getty Images A startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Face.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderMar 5th, 2020

Company with billions of photos just had its client list stolen

Clearview AI, a startup that compiles billions of photos for facial recognition technology, said it lost its entire client list to hackers......»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralFeb 26th, 2020

Global Surveillance State: Plans For New EU-US Transatlantic Facial-Recognition Database

Global Surveillance State: Plans For New EU-US Transatlantic Facial-Recognition Database Via 21stCenturyWire.com, Much is made in western media and discourse about the horrors the Chinese surveillance state. In.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeFeb 24th, 2020

Chinese subways are using artificial intelligence facial recognition scanners to help detect whether people have coronavirus

REUTERS/Stringer In Beijing, China, subway passengers are being screen en masse for symptoms of coronavirus by artificial technology and t.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderFeb 11th, 2020

The controversial facial recognition tech from Clearview AI is also being used to identify child victims of sexual abuse

CBS This Morning A software startup t.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderFeb 8th, 2020

Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to facial recognition startup Clearview AI for scraping billions of photos

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a facial recognition startup after it scraped billions of images from the social media site w.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderFeb 6th, 2020

A startup that scraped billions of photos from Facebook and Google to create a facial-recognition database was just sent a cease-and-desist by Google and YouTube

APPhoto/Mike Derer A software startup that scraped billions of images from major web services — including Facebook, Google, and YouTube — is selling its tool to la.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderFeb 5th, 2020

A startup company took billions of photos from Facebook and other websites to create a facial-recognition database, and hundreds of law-enforcement agencies are using it

Clearwater AI, a facial-recognition startup that scraped social media for images, has been adopted by at least 600 law-enforcement agencies, according to a New York Times report. The software developers relied on current .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJan 18th, 2020

China"s facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes

China on Sunday put into effect new regulations that require Chinese telecom carriers to scan the faces of users registering new mobile phone services, a move the government says is aimed at cracking down on fraud......»»

Category: topSource: reutersDec 2nd, 2019

Microsoft to probe work of Israeli facial recognition startup it funded

Microsoft Corp has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the company said on Friday......»»

Category: topSource: reutersNov 15th, 2019