Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

A set of parents and their children in Illinois and California filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago alleging that Meta illegally…

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police…

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the…