Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister has said.
Reuters exclusively reported that Ukraine's Ministry of Defense began this month to use technology from Clearview AI, a New York-based facial recognition provider that finds images on the web that match faces from uploaded photos. It was not clear at that time how the technology would be used.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice prime minister who also runs the ministry of digital transformation, said Ukraine had been using Clearview AI software to find the social media accounts of dead Russian soldiers.