The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
https://clearview.ai
#clearview #biometrics #facial #recognition #usa #gov #police #why
A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
https://clearview.ai
#clearview #biometrics #facial #recognition #usa #gov #police #why
NY Times
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)
A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
Clearview AI's entire client list stolen in data breach
https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-ai-had-entire-client-list-stolen-in-data-breach
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#clearview #biometrics #facial #recognition
https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-ai-had-entire-client-list-stolen-in-data-breach
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CNET
Clearview AI's entire client list stolen in data breach
The breach affected all of the facial recognition company's customers, many of which are law enforcement agencies.
If you live in California, you can see what Clearview has on you, and ask them to stop - here's one reporter's example
The reporter emailed privacy-requests@clearview.ai and requested the information they had on her, how they got it, and how they used it. She also requested they delete what they had, and then opted out of their future data collections on her.
After 11 days, Clearview asked for a "clear photo" of her, and a government-issued ID. *Of course they did.*
She sent them what they requested, and got a PDF showing all the photos they'd scraped of her from her social media accounts and those of her friends, from 2004 to 2019.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmkyq/heres-the-file-clearview-ai-has-been-keeping-on-me-and-probably-on-you-too
More than 2,200 agencies and companies have tried Clearview, report finds
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/more-than-2200-agencies-and-companies-have-tried-clearview-report-finds
Apple Says Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Is Violating Its Rules
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/loganmcdonald/apple-clearview-app-violates-tos-supension
#clearview #biometrics #facial #recognition #why #how #california #usa #apple
The reporter emailed privacy-requests@clearview.ai and requested the information they had on her, how they got it, and how they used it. She also requested they delete what they had, and then opted out of their future data collections on her.
After 11 days, Clearview asked for a "clear photo" of her, and a government-issued ID. *Of course they did.*
She sent them what they requested, and got a PDF showing all the photos they'd scraped of her from her social media accounts and those of her friends, from 2004 to 2019.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmkyq/heres-the-file-clearview-ai-has-been-keeping-on-me-and-probably-on-you-too
More than 2,200 agencies and companies have tried Clearview, report finds
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/more-than-2200-agencies-and-companies-have-tried-clearview-report-finds
Apple Says Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Is Violating Its Rules
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/loganmcdonald/apple-clearview-app-violates-tos-supension
#clearview #biometrics #facial #recognition #why #how #california #usa #apple
Vice
Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me.
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The Far-Right Helped Create The World's Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology
Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.
Advanced facial recognition technology poses a mortal threat to privacy. It could grant the government, corporations and even average citizens the ability to capture a photo of anybody and, with a few keystrokes, uncover all kinds of personal details. So when The New York Times published an exposé about a shadowy facial recognition firm called Clearview AI in January, it seemed like the worst nightmare of privacy advocates had arrived.
Clearview is the most powerful form of facial recognition technology ever created, according to the Times. With more than 3 billion photos scraped surreptitiously from social media profiles and websites, its image database is almost seven times the size of the FBI’s. Its mobile app can match names to faces with a tap of a touchscreen. The technology is already being integrated into augmented reality glasses so people can identify almost anyone they look at.
Clearview has contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, BuzzFeed reported earlier this year, and FBI agents, members of Customs and Border Protection, and hundreds of police officers at departments nationwide are among its users.
With the coronavirus pandemic increasingly throwing the country into chaos and President Donald Trump moving to expand domestic surveillance powers ― in theory, to better map disease spread ― Clearview has sought deeper inroads into government infrastructure and is now in discussions with state agencies to use its technology to track infected people, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Read more:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
#clearview #facial #recognition #technology #privacy #thinkabout #why
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Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.
Advanced facial recognition technology poses a mortal threat to privacy. It could grant the government, corporations and even average citizens the ability to capture a photo of anybody and, with a few keystrokes, uncover all kinds of personal details. So when The New York Times published an exposé about a shadowy facial recognition firm called Clearview AI in January, it seemed like the worst nightmare of privacy advocates had arrived.
Clearview is the most powerful form of facial recognition technology ever created, according to the Times. With more than 3 billion photos scraped surreptitiously from social media profiles and websites, its image database is almost seven times the size of the FBI’s. Its mobile app can match names to faces with a tap of a touchscreen. The technology is already being integrated into augmented reality glasses so people can identify almost anyone they look at.
Clearview has contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, BuzzFeed reported earlier this year, and FBI agents, members of Customs and Border Protection, and hundreds of police officers at departments nationwide are among its users.
With the coronavirus pandemic increasingly throwing the country into chaos and President Donald Trump moving to expand domestic surveillance powers ― in theory, to better map disease spread ― Clearview has sought deeper inroads into government infrastructure and is now in discussions with state agencies to use its technology to track infected people, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Read more:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
#clearview #facial #recognition #technology #privacy #thinkabout #why
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#Clearview AI ordered to delete all #facial #recognition data belonging to Australians
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761001/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761001/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete
The Verge
Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians
Australia says no to Clearview’s indiscriminate data scraping
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Ukraine has started using #Clearview AI’s facial recognition during war | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-ukraine-has-started-using-clearview-ais-facial-recognition-during-war-2022-03-13/Ukraine Turns To Clearview AI For Facial Recognition During War
#Clearview AI is relatively new surveillance company backed by Peter #Thiel and engaged in massive collection of photos from social media platforms. Clearview is making its system available to Ukraine for FREE and it will be used for security and surveillance identification of its populace. Clearview’s system is already banned in several countries and has caused privacy outrage in the U.S.
https://www.technocracy.news/ukraine-turns-to-clearview-ai-for-facial-recognition-during-war/
#Clearview AI is relatively new surveillance company backed by Peter #Thiel and engaged in massive collection of photos from social media platforms. Clearview is making its system available to Ukraine for FREE and it will be used for security and surveillance identification of its populace. Clearview’s system is already banned in several countries and has caused privacy outrage in the U.S.
https://www.technocracy.news/ukraine-turns-to-clearview-ai-for-facial-recognition-during-war/
Technocracy News
Ukraine Turns To Clearview AI For Facial Recognition During War
Clearview AI is relatively new surveillance company backed by Peter Thiel and engaged in massive collection of photos from social media platforms. Clearview is making its system available to Ukraine for FREE and it will be used for security and surveillance…
#Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/clearview-ai-another-cnil-gspr-fine/
#facialrecognition #ai
Clearview AI, the U.S. startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France over non-cooperation with the data protection regulator.#facialrecognition #ai
TechCrunch
Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders
Clearview AI, the U.S. startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been…
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About Face (Recognition) | EFF
Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called #Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though it’s primarily used by law enforcement, should we have to worry that the eavesdropper at the next restaurant table, or the creep who’s bothering you in the bar, or the protestor outside the abortion clinic can surreptitiously snap a pic of you, upload it, and use it to identify you, where you live and work, your social media accounts, and more?
Kashmir Hill has been writing about the intersection of #privacy and #technology for well over a decade; her book about Clearview AI’s rise and practices was published last fall. She speaks with the #EFF about how face recognition technology’s rapid evolution may have outpaced ethics and regulations, and where we might go from here.
#FacialRecognition
Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called #Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though it’s primarily used by law enforcement, should we have to worry that the eavesdropper at the next restaurant table, or the creep who’s bothering you in the bar, or the protestor outside the abortion clinic can surreptitiously snap a pic of you, upload it, and use it to identify you, where you live and work, your social media accounts, and more?
Kashmir Hill has been writing about the intersection of #privacy and #technology for well over a decade; her book about Clearview AI’s rise and practices was published last fall. She speaks with the #EFF about how face recognition technology’s rapid evolution may have outpaced ethics and regulations, and where we might go from here.
#FacialRecognition