Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation Mykhailo Fedorov speaks at a conference in Ukraine in an undated photograph. Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - 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 told Reuters.

Reuters exclusively reported that Ukraine's Ministry of Defense this month began using 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.