A controversial facial recognition platform has been used more than 1,000 times by Ukrainian officials.
Last month a controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, announced it had given its technology to the Ukrainian government.
"It kind of works like Google. But instead of putting in a string of words or text, the user puts in a photo of a face," explains Mr Ton-That. "We saw images of people who were prisoners of war and fleeing situations, and you know, it got us thinking that this could potentially be a technology that could be useful for identification, and also verification," he says.Back in Kharkiv, authorities took a picture of the dead man's face - his head held up, his sunken eyes directed towards the camera.
But its use in Ukraine is more wide-ranging than in any previous conflict. Mr Toler says that he uses the facial recognition platform FindClone in Russia, and that it's been particularly helpful for identifying dead Russian soldiers.Clearview says its technology is being used by the Ukrainian government at checkpoints to help identify enemy suspects
Clearview showed the BBC an email, from a Ukrainian agency, confirming that the system was being used to identify the living. "It shouldn't be a life or death technology where you either pass or fail, where you could get imprisoned or, god forbid, even killed. That's not how this should be used at all."
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