The Information Accountability Foundation says Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights the critical and increasing importance of data, surveillance and intelligence activities, adding that the right to data sharing for security is a fundamental human right. The IAF said that EU Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager's recent comments about a replacement EU-US data transfer agreement being a high priority but not easy were "not helpful" and said, "the fundamental right to life and personal security" should be part of a "data protection proportionality equation.
In related news, Reuters reports Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has been granted free access to Clearview AI’s facial recognition software. The company has offered “to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.” Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That reportedly wrote a letter to Ukrainian authorities and offered assistance amid the Russian invasion. Ton-That claimed Clearview had more than 2 billion images from Russian social media service VKontakte at its disposal.
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