The Age of Surveillance – Remember Clearview AI? Well, after making headlines in the United States , it is now in Europe following a complaint filed by an NGO against the company. In France, an investigation has also been requested by the CNIL into Clearview's practices. These latest developments have brought back several criticisms about facial recognition in public spaces, in Europe and elsewhere. For example, we learned that in China an AI is used to analyze the emotions of Uighurs , thus reinforcing the already strict control of this minority. In the United States, surveillance has even become a market in its own right accessible to all consumers, as with the Citizen application, the use of which has sometimes proven dangerous.
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