There’s a new proposed class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges they harvested Facebook and Instagram photographs for biometric information that was used to train image generation models and develop an, as yet, unreleased facial recognition feature called Nametag for smart glasses. Meta says that the lawsuit has misrepresented the situation and notes that Nametag […]
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It’s always been pretty straightforward if you don’t want people to know where your photographs have been taken. You simply remove the EXIF data or don’t release the coordinates showing the location, right? Right? Well, maybe not anymore. Recently, the software security company McAfee, did an experiment with AI that will have a lot of […]
The Iranian regime has used the Iran National Journalist Day to sentence award-winning photojournalist Yalda Moaiery to fifteen years in prison. Moaiery. who has more than two decades of experience as a photojournalist covering conflict, humanitarian crises, political dissent and the lives of women in Iran, was sentenced in absentia by Branch 29 of Tehran’s […]
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently released a stunning deep-space image of the cosmos apparently containing over 500,000 galaxies. Not stars, galaxies! The mind-blowing image was shot using an LSST camera, which holds the record as the world’s largest digital camera and has a resolution of 3.2 gigapixels or 3200 megapixels. The caveat […]
As always, it has been another huge week in photography news and I thought I would try something different by offering a list of pretty interesting articles that I think you might be interested in. Adobe Lightroom has another major update, and the big news from that is that their masking feature for “select subject” […]
If you have even a passing interest in photography, then the chances are you have come across the work of famed war photographer Don McCullin. In fact, even if you have only a passing interest in the politics of the world than the same can be said. McCullin’s work from Vietnam, Biafra, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Northern […]
