Mind-blowing technology taps AI to read your dog's nose print and face. Many of us chip our pets these days to keep track of them if anything ever happens. Although, a new AI-driven pet ID app may be aiming to have us forget chips and use our phone's camera to ID our pets' faces. This technology eliminates the need for microchipping and provides a more convenient way to track our pets. The app allows pet owners to register their pets and store their facial features in a database.

GUVI has joined hands with AICTE to offer free online training for Artificial Intelligence professionals or students. AICTE with the partnership with GUVI is offering free online Artificial Intelligence to the participants that will be a 90 minutes workshop. The event will start from April 24 2021 6 PM IST to April 25 2021 at 6 PM IST in different time slots for participants. The aim behind the event is to help the students to polish their Python skills and develop the face recognition app. The training is an initiative taken by AICTE and GUVI to help the professionals of India to top the Artificial Intelligence domain.

On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick talked with Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, to unpack how the scope of the First Amendment continues to grow even as it fails in the face of so many of the free speech issues we face today. A portion of their conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, has been transcribed below. Dahlia Lithwick: I think I've had a Post-it note pinned to my screen saying, "Do a First Amendment show" for three years. It sweeps in every news cycle. From the Facebook "Supreme Court," your own litigation around Trump's tweets, cancel culture, the speech defenses that came up at the impeachment trial--I think of the First Amendment as a framework that governs all of those things. As you suggested to me, when we were thinking about this show, the First Amendment is "everywhere but nowhere."

The facial recognition app Clearview AI is not welcome in Canada and the company that developed it should delete Canadians' faces from its database, the country's privacy commissioner said on Wednesday. "What Clearview does is mass surveillance, and it is illegal," Commissioner Daniel Therrien said at a news conference. He forcefully denounced the company as putting all of society "continually in a police lineup." Though the Canadian government does not have legal authority to enforce photo removal, the position -- the strongest one an individual country has taken against the company -- was clear: "This is completely unacceptable." Clearview scraped more than three billion photos from social media networks and other public websites in order to build a facial recognition app that is now used by over 2,400 U.S. law enforcement agencies, according to the company.

Clearview AI is just one of many facial recognition firms scraping billions of online images to create a massive database for purchase – but a new program could block their efforts. Researchers designed an image clocking tool that makes subtle pixel-level changes that distort pictures enough so they cannot be used by online scrapers – and claims it is 100 percent effective. Named in honor of the'V for Vendetta' mask, Fawkes is an algorithm and software combination that'cloaks' an image to trick systems, which is like adding an invisible mask to your face. These altered pictures teach technologies a distorted version of the subject and when presented with an'uncloaked' form, the scraping app fails to recognize the individual. 'It might surprise some to learn that we started the Fawkes project a while before the New York Times article that profiled Clearview.ai in February 2020,' researchers from the SANLab at University of Chicago shared in a statement.

Gristedes billionaire John Catsimatidis found a creepy use for the facial recognition software that helps fight shoplifters at his New York City grocery stores: snooping on his daughter Andrea's dates. "Daddies are always looking after their daughters," Catsimatidis explained to The Post. The doting dad was dining at Cipriani in SoHo when he noticed his daughter Andrea, 29, was there too -- on a date. Fearing that some no good "charlatan" could be insinuating his way into the life of his beautiful, jet-setting, heiress daughter, Catsimatidis had a waiter take and send him a cellphone photo of the mystery man. He uploaded the photo into Clearview AI, and "We retrieved a picture of him in 20 seconds," he said of the October 2018 secret spy mission. The verdict? "He was an OK person," Catsimatidis told The Post.

Way back in May 2011, Eric Schmidt, who was then the executive chairman of Google, said that the rapid development of facial recognition technology had been one of the things that had surprised him most in a long career as a computer scientist. But its "surprising accuracy" was "very concerning". Questioned about this, he said that a database using facial recognition technology was unlikely to be a service that the company would create, but went on to say that "some company … is going to cross that line". As it happens, Dr Schmidt was being economical with the actualité, as the MP Alan Clark used to say. He must surely have known that a few months earlier Facebook had announced that it was using facial recognition in the US to suggest names while tagging photos.

Facebook is under fire for privacy concerns once again, as the social media giant tested a facial recognition app on its employees. Using real-time facial recognition, the firm was able to identify a person by pointing a smartphone camera at them. It was reported that the app has been discontinued, but the technology was capable of bringing up someone's Facebook profile who had enabled facial recognition on their profiles. Facebook did confirm that it developed the app, but denied it was capable of identifying members of its social media network and pulling up their profile. Facebook is under fire for privacy concerns once again, as the social media giant revealed it tested a facial recognition app on its employees.

Facebook made a facial recognition app for internal use, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. On Friday, Business Insider published a story citing anonymous sources that Facebook created a smartphone app that utilized facial recognition as early as 2015 to scan the faces of people identifiable through the social network's facial recognition system. When asked for response by VentureBeat, a company spokesperson provided the following statement: "As a way to learn about new technologies, our teams regularly build apps to use internally. The app described here was only available to Facebook employees, and could only recognize employees and their friends who had face recognition enabled." This fall, Facebook opened to all users its facial recognition system that does things like recognize faces in photos, alongside an option to opt-out if they don't want their faces to be analyzed.

South Wales police are to have a facial recognition app installed on their phones to identify suspects without having to take them to a police station. The force intends to test the app over the next three months with 50 officers using the technology to confirm the names of people of interest who are stopped on routine patrols. The app will allow officers to run a snapshot of a person through a database of suspects called a watchlist, and find potential matches even if the individual gives false or misleading information. The move is the latest sign that police forces in Britain are eager to embrace the controversial technology which has been criticised for infringing privacy and increasing state powers of surveillance. Liberty, the campaign group, called the announcement "chilling", adding that it was "shameful" that South Wales police had chosen to press ahead with handheld facial recognition systems even as it faced a court challenge over the technology.