Ukraine Identifying Dead Russian Soldiers With Facial Recognition Tech To Send Photos Of Corpses To Their Mothers

Inside the 50 days since Moscow's operation started, Ukrainian authorities have conducted over 8,600 facial recognition lookups on dead or captured Russian soldiers. Using the scan results to distinguish bodies, Ukraine is sending photos of corpses to their mothers in what could be one of the most grotesque implementations of the innovation to date.

The country's IT Army, a volunteer group of hackers and activists directed by the Ukrainian government, claims it has already employed those...

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