PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new
powers after far-right unrest
Civil liberties campaigners have said that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on
Thursday to expand the use of live facial recognition technology would amount to
the effective introduction of a national ID card system based on people’s faces.
Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new
prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day
that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into
force.
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‘Unpredictable’ privacy regulations prompt Facebook owner to scrap regional
plans for multimodal Llama
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will not release an advanced version of its artificial
intelligence model in the EU, blaming the decision on the “unpredictable”
behaviour of regulators.
The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is preparing to issue its Llama
model in multimodal form, meaning it is able to work across text, video, images
and audio instead of just one format. Llama is an open source model, allowing it
to be freely downloaded and adapted by users.
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