The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested peopleβs Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased βNameTagβ face recognition feature.
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian driversβ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
WIRED rebuilt Flockβs latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officerβs browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
Flockβs surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientistsβ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.