Complex questions as face recognition tech joins Ukraine war

Ukraine is employing face recognition technology from the controversial Clearview AI to identify Russian soldiers killed on its soil, in order to inform the soldiers' family. — REUTERS

Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday.

The embattled nation uses details resulting from the process to try to track down and notify the families of the dead, in an act Ukraine says is aimed at piercing Russia's war information filter.