Ukraine is using facial recognition tech to identify dead Russian soldiers and inform their families
The Ukrainian government is using facial recognition software to identify dead Russian soldiers, Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo FedorovBeyond identification, he said, the information is being used to contact the relatives of the dead.
"As a courtesy to the mothers of those soldiers, we are disseminating this information over social media to at least let families know that they they've lost their sons, and to then enable them to come to collect their bodies," Fedorov told the wire service through a translator.Its software identifies people using public images scraped from the web and social media platforms, without permission, to create a searchable database.
Photos of you, photos of friends and family — all of it is scraped and saved by Clearview AI. That includes 2 million photos pulled from the Russian social media service VKontakte, Clearview has previously said, according to Reuters.
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