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CANCELLATION OF THE MAG REGIONAL COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 15, 2021, MEETING

Gotta wonder how dis-organized the Maricopa Association of Governments really is. When they keep doing stuff like this - NO EXPLANATION

The MAG Regional Council Executive Committee meeting scheduled for November 15, 2021, is cancelled.

No photo description available.

If you have any questions regarding this cancellation, please contact Eric Anderson, MAG Executive Director at eanderson@azmag.gov.

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AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PRIVACY BREACHED BY CLEARVIEW : 3 BILLION WEB-SCRAPED IMAGES MUST BE DELETED

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Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians

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The company breached Australian privacy law

By James Vincent Nov 3, 2021, 5:59am EDT

"Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.

Clearview, which claims to have scraped 10 billion images of people from social media sites in order to identify them in other photos, sells its technology to law enforcement agencies. It was trialled by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) between October 2019 and March 2020.

Now, following an investigation, Australia privacy regulator, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), has found that the company breached citizens’ privacy. “The covert collection of this kind of sensitive information is unreasonably intrusive and unfair,” said OAIC privacy commissioner Angelene Falk in a press statement. “It carries significant risk of harm to individuals, including vulnerable groups such as children and victims of crime, whose images can be searched on Clearview AI’s database.”

[. . .] As reported by The Guardian, Clearview itself intends to appeal the decision. “Clearview AI operates legitimately according to the laws of its places of business,” Mark Love, a lawyer for the firm BAL Lawyers representing Clearview, told the publication. “Not only has the commissioner’s decision missed the mark on the manner of Clearview AI’s manner of operation, the commissioner lacks jurisdiction.”

Clearview argues that the images it collected were publicly available, so no breach of privacy occurred, and that they were published in the US, so Australian law does not apply.

Around the world, though, there is growing discontent with the spread of facial recognition systems, which threaten to eliminate anonymity in public spaces. Yesterday, Facebook parent company Meta announced it was shutting down the social platform’s facial recognition feature and deleting the facial templates it created for the system. The company cited “growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole.” Meta also recently paid a $650 million settlement after the tech was found to have breached privacy laws in Illinois in the US.

TECHDIRT PODCAST 303

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 303: The Facebook Papers & The Media

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Tue, Nov 2nd 2021 1:30pm — Leigh Beadon

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