How Facial Recognition Tech Made Its Way to the Battlefield in Ukraine

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How Facial Recognition Tech Made Its Way to the Battlefield in Ukraine
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Facial recognition, whether it’s used by researchers, regular citizens, or Ukrainian soldiers, is changing the way war is fought.

, the controversial American facial recognition company. Clearview is infamous for working with law enforcement and for scraping people’s photos from the internet without their consent. The company says it offered its services to five Ukrainian government agencies free of charge. According to multiple news reports, that’s led to Ukrainian soldiers scanning the faces of dead Russians to find their identities, then contacting their families.

They published videos about this, showing the chats that they have with the mothers of the dead soldiers. This is kind of like schadenfreude—it’s supposed to be like, look at them suffering, look at the family, look at the mother being shocked and horrified about her son being dead . That’s kind of the most twisted and worst version of this, but I think there are some cases that could be called benign good cases.I think there is a narrative in the press about the sort of “good use case” of facial recognition in in this war, maybe on the side of Ukraine. As someone who deals in the gray areas, how do you react to seeing all those different pieces of information come out?

It’s really hard to unpack. The more nefarious and dubious stuff is Ukrainian soldiers contacting the families of dead soldiers in order to harass them and mock them.

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