Ukraine uses facial recognition software to identify Russian soldiers killed in combat

The defense ministry began using technology from Clearview AI which scrapes images on the web to match uploaded photos

Ukraine is using facial recognition software to help identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and track down their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice-prime minister told the Reuters news service.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice-prime minister who also runs the ministry of digital transformation, told Reuters his country had been using software facial recognition provider Clearview AI to find the social media accounts of dead Russian soldiers.