Meta's Muse ai and the UK's facial recognition: who owns your image?

Meta's Muse ai and the UK's facial recognition: who owns your image?

Author: Amanda Stephens, Hanna Bilinski,Rti July 20, 2026 Duration: 0:00
This week, host Amanda Stephens, is joined by Rti's resident tech specialist Tomasz Koper to discuss the very large and increasingly present question: who owns the rights to use or keep tabs on your image? We'll be looking at a case study in the UK with faical image scanning in big box stores, and from social media last week with Meta's Muse AI image generator. Read along with us: Meta's Muse: 1. Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out (Reece Rogers, Wired), 2. Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World (Meta press release), 3. Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch following privacy backlash (Natalia Bueno Rebolledo and Mrinmay Dey, Reuters), 4. Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (Kali Hays, BBC) UK face scanning: 1. Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police (Jessica Murray, The Guardian), 2. Facewatch retail facial recognition to notify police of repeat offender matches (Chris Burt, Biometricupdate.com), 3. Sainsbury's ejects man misidentified as offender (Kateryna Pavlyuk, BBC) Stanford Law Review: Privacy in the Age of Big Data, A Time for Big Decisions (Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky)

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