“Clearview is a complete affront to people’s rights and has been completely shut down and police cannot use this tool.”
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Clearview AI, the company behind the widely used facial recognition technology, is already making America’s police prosecute innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. 30 billion According to a comment provided to Facebook by CEO Hoan Ton-That, Facebook photos to train the AI algorithm BBC last week.
If that wasn’t enough, Ton-That said in the same interview that U.S. law enforcement — 3,100 of which Engadget The report uses a database and appears to have performed nearly a million searches using that algorithm.
To put that 30 billion figure into perspective, as of the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook had approximately 2.94 billion monthly active users. So even taking bots into account, many Faces in its database are scraped without the explicit knowledge of Facebook users and, as Facebook says, without the permission of the social media giant. In fact, Facebook has already sent Clearview at least one cease and desist order.
“Clearview AI’s actions violate people’s privacy,” said a Meta spokesperson insider “Therefore, we have sent a legal request to ban the founder from our service and stop him from accessing any data, photos or videos from our service.”
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Ton-That says everything Clearview does is fine. useful!
“Clearview AI’s database of publicly available images, like other search engines like Google, are collected legally,” the CEO said. insider“Clearview AI’s database is used by law enforcement for post-crime investigations and is not available to the public.”
“Every photo in the dataset has the potential to be a clue that could save lives, bring justice to innocent victims, prevent unauthorized identification, and exonerate innocents.” he continued.
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But unsurprisingly, some experts view this particular base of the ever-growing and largely unregulated police surveillance state in a very different light.
“Clearview is a complete affront to people’s rights, a complete stoppage, and a total stoppage,” said Caitlin Seeley-George, campaign and operations director for non-profit digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future. cannot use this tool.” insider.
George added, “Police often use Clearview without their knowledge or consent. It’s the only form of ‘transparency’ that allows us to know whether
read more: Clearview AI has been used nearly a million times by US police, tells the BBC [BBC]
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