CEO Avi Golan: “As a vendor of AI based facial recognition products for private companies and government agencies it is important for me to emphasise - facial recognition apps should be provided with an empty database”
Australia privacy regulator, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, has found that the scraping pictures and identities from social networks 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.”
