Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms

Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission

A California-based facial recognition biz has been directed by the US Federal Trade Commission to delete the AI models and algorithms that it developed by harvesting people's photos and videos without permission, a remedy that suggests privacy violators may no longer be allowed to benefit from ill-gotten data....