ZeroHedge: Facial recognition firm Clearview has built a massive AI-powered database of billions of pictures collected from social media platforms without obtaining users’ consent.
In late March, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That told BBC in an interview that the company had obtained 30 billion photos without users’ knowledge over the years, scraped mainly from social media platforms like Facebook. He said US law enforcement agencies use the database to identify criminals.
Ton-That disputed claims that the photos were unlawfully collected. He told Bussiness Insider in an emailed statement, “Clearview AI’s database of publicly available images is lawfully collected, just like any other search engine like Google.” MORE
See my avatar? Scrape that.
Fakebook has done it for years. If you place your photo on social media, it’s no longer yours.
Between your photo and browser history, it will be easy to identify those that need to go to the “reeducation” camps.
only someone not paying attention would say this seriously.
“claims that the photos were unlawfully collected”
can you remember the last time our government and our tech moguls acted lawfully ?????
In my opinion, Zuckabucks started that (apparent) dishonest business as a petty thief of personal identity theft in all forms possible that evolved into a major identity verifier, seller, and potential ID crime boss and political phlegm-flam, laundry man.
Just try signing up and submitting only a fake birth date (but all other info correct) and see what happens.
For myself, I was suspended for life from FaceCrook and (later) Instagams since around 2014. It seems as though they already have your ID on file anyway. They just verify it with THEIR in-house records or resources after signing up. But…that’s just one man’s opinion after going through this procedure twice. Giving them false info would make them appear unreliable to their personal information Customers. So, to me he is nothing more than a cheap, Harvard-educated, ID pick-pocket.
Anything you put on the Internet is fair game. There is no privacy if there’s a Web connection, and anyone who doesn’t know that at this point is simply not paying attention.
Althogh if you have a driver’s license, I suspect the State already has your portrait. It’s the one you posed for in front of a Government camera for a Government employee.
I’m pretty sure “US law enforcement agencies” already have access to that.
DO NOT put your face, family’s faces, friends and neighbors, boss,and co-workers faces on the internet and DO NOT use your real name. DO NOT submit your home address, phone number, or other private info. Matter of fact, DO NOT use social media at all.