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• @fabiochiusi Fabio Chiusi on x

  “The startup was the subject of a report in 2019 that alleged that its technology was being quietly used by the Israeli government to run surveillance on Palestinians in the West Bank” https://twitter.com/...

• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  Companies like AnyVision would love to see facial recognition “regulations” so that they can continue selling this invasive, racist, dangerous software to anyone who will buy it while washing their hands of the results by saying “well they complied with all the laws” Ban it. http…

• @jessedamiani Jesse Damiani on x

  “'Overall, we had over 164,000 detections the last 7 days running the pilot. We were able to detect students on multiple cameras and even detected one student 1100 times!' Taylor May, then a regional sales manager for AnyVision, said in an email” https://themarkup.org/...

• @themarkup @themarkup on x

  NEW: We reviewed hundreds of exchanges between a Texas school district and a facial recognition firm it bought software from. The software detected faces more than 164,000 times during the school's weeklong pilot period. https://themarkup.org/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  New: Facial recognition firm AnyVision boasts hundreds of customers, including in schools, stores like Macy's, airports and stadiums. We reviewed public records, including a 2019 version of its user guide, which showed just how much people are tracked: https://themarkup.org/...