Reports by NU.nl showed that the pictures were not always duly removed. Once someone is acquitted the photos must be removed. The photos on the CATCH system largely come from another database of suspects and convicts. Clearview AI is a revolutionary, all-in-one, facial recognition platform designed to support federal, state, and local law enforcement in their shared mission to help keep communities safe. In March 2021, it was revealed that thousands of pictures were improperly stored in the database.
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It is not likely that the use of the software technology by Dutch authorities is legal, the Dutch Data Protection Authority stated in reaction to the Buzzfeed article.ĬATCH is the facial recognition software used by Dutch police. An investigation earlier this year did not show any information about their use of Clearview AI. Yet, based on Clearview AI logs the Dutch police used the software between 50 to 100 times between 20, the Reformatorisch Dagblad reported. Kevin Frayer/Getty In mid-January, Clearview AI went from unknown startup to the star of its very own New York Times exposé. Nevertheless, Clearview has also found a new potential source of business: using its facial recognition as a way to assist Covid-19-related contract tracing efforts. The UK’s data watchdog has fined a facial recognition company £7.5m for collecting images of people from social media platforms and the web to add to a global database. The police “have not been approached centrally by Clearview, are not aware of any contacts with that company and have not purchased any products”, Grapperhaus stated in 2020 in response to questions posed by GroenLinks MP Kathalijne Buitenweg. Facial recognition software created by the Chinese tech company Huawei. Additionally, the software has been known to incorrectly identify suspects.Ī 2020 report by Buzzfeed News showed that over two thousand governmental agencies used the services of Clearview AI. Some of the pictures used by Clearview AI were gathered without the permission of their owners, sourced in many cases from private Facebook and Twitter accounts. Clearview AI scraped more than 10 billion photos from the public internet to build a facial-recognition tool that it marketed to law enforcement agencies for identifying unknown. The use of the software is likely in conflict with privacy guidelines. In April 2020, Minister of Justice Ferd Grapperhaus denied that Dutch authorities used the software.
A leaked software log from the debated facial recognition software Clearview AI showed that Dutch police officers used the program to identify suspects, the Reformatorisch Dagblad reported.
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