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Digital Planet: Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers

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29/03/2022 GMT

Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers

Ukraine is claiming to use facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers.

Ukraine is claiming to use facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers. Also, is Ukraine winning the information war? And the Okta data breach.

It’s been reported that Ukraine is receiving help to identify Russian infiltrators or ID dead soldiers. A facial recognition company called Clearview AI is offering access to its database of billions of facial images. We’ve reported on Clearview before as it has been accused of overstating its algorithms’ effectiveness as well as being fined by data regulators. Rhiannon Williams of MIT Download is on the programme and has been following the story. 

How Ukraine isn’t winning the Information War
The assumption in the West is that Ukraine and President Zelensky are dominating the narrative online, but according to a new analysis that’s only the way it seems in the western social media bubble.  23 million tweets which included hashtags like #IstandwithPutin and #IstandwithRussia were monitored to see how and where they were sent.  The White paper just published by CASM Technology shows that Russia is targeting BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and more generally Africa and Asia. Carl Miller from CASM explains what they’ve found and why we can’t assume that everyone around the world is getting the same online messages.

Okta data breach – who, what, where, why, when and how
Okta is probably one of the biggest tech companies in the world you’ve never heard of until now.  Its customers use its software to allow employees to work remotely by accessing their systems from outside the office.  However, they had a data breach back in January and now the hacking group Lapsus$ is claiming it may have accessed more data than Okta is willing to admit. Protocol’s Sarah Roach explains what’s happened and why possibly millions of logins from around the world could be impacted.

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