Facial recognition: Clearview AI has just been banned from the App Store

Developers who want to publish an application oniOSmust respect a few rules for Apple to let them publish their content. For remunerationexcept exceptions, this system has been in place since the iPhone opened up to third-party publishers. It also allows them to choose to whom to distribute their software, in particular thanks to a program dedicated to businesses.

This offers the possibility of making a service available only within a frameworkprivate, for the company's employees for example. You just need to have more than a hundred employees and ensure that access will indeed be limited to teams working internally.

A not so common mistake

Unfortunately forClearview AI, the procedure required by Apple to benefit from this privilege has been largely exceeded. Because the app has been sent to more than 2,200 customers, including government agencies, professionals, the US immigration department, Macy's, Walmart, the NBA and the FBI. Clearly, the judicial police across the Atlantic and confidentiality,that's two.

This violation therefore resulted in adeactivationpure and simple from the developer account of the offenders, who still have two weeks to explain themselves. A fate also previously reserved for Google or Facebook, for the same reasons.

Anyway, Tim Cook keeps postinghis concerns about privacyconsumers, and when we know the tumultuous past of Hoan Ton-That we imagine that Californian mobiles do without his creation. The CEO actually began his career by hacking Internet users with phishing, before finding himself pursued by the courts and getting closer to radicals interested in his artificial intelligence, sincecriticizedon Alphabet and Linkedin.

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By : Keleops AG