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The Government of Ukraine has announced that it will use facial recognition to identify Russian soldiers who died in the war. This technology will make it possible to identify the identity of the victims of the conflict and to ensure, according to the position of the Ukrainian government, greater transparency regarding the number of deaths among soldiers of the Russian army. Here are all the details on the matter:
Facial recognition to identify Russian dead in Ukraine
The decision to adopt facial recognition is linked to the desire to inform Russia about the number of deaths of the army during the conflict. Confirmation came from Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and Deputy Prime Minister. The Ukrainian government exponent has communicated this choice on his Telegram profile but has not clarified which technology will be used for this purpose. According to what Forbes discoveredUkraine is using facial recognition of Clearview AI, company that has made its software available free of charge. Clearview can count on a huge database of images taken from social networks (including the Russian Facebook Vkontakte).
There is no lack of controversy
Clearview AI’s facial recognition software has been at the heart of the past few weeks several controversies. In the United States, in fact, there was talk of one serious threat to privacy. It should also be noted that the software has been accused of “be racist ” and assume different behaviors in the scanning of subjects of black and Asian ethnicities