Meanwhile my company stresses about the GDPR ramifications of mentioning someone’s name in an obscure Slack channel.
> Clearview AI offers an app which customers can use to upload a photograph of someone to try and identify them by checking them against its unlawful database.
Bad enough if that’s available to any old government body that fancies it, but even worse if it’s available for commercial / personal use.
That said… Google Lens lets you upload any image and it’ll scour the web for similar (so presumably you could use it to try and find someone’s details based on an image of them, if you were a creep). It’s not nearly as purpose-built but I wonder if there’s enough similarity there to raise an eyebrow.
And these are the ones who got caught. It would be naive to believe these are the only ones doing this. And what a punishment – a slap on the wrist. This is not gonna deter anyone!
>Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO also fined Clearview £7.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK’s data protection laws.
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>It’s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in Australia, France, and Italy.
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>Clearview claims its facial recognition database contains some 20 billion images scraped from public sources like Facebook and Instagram. It previously sold its software to an array of private users and businesses, but recently agreed to restrict itself in the US to selling to federal agencies and police departments following a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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>In the UK, Clearview AI’s services have been used in the past by law enforcement customers including the Metropolitan Police, Ministry of Defence, and National Crime Agency. ICO says the company “no longer offers its services to UK organisations,” but notes that the data it has scraped from UK residents can still be used by customers in other countries. …
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>([*The Verge: Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents*](https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23137603/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine))
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**reminder**:
>07/04/2020: [The Far-Right Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48)
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>*Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.*
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>In this far-right clique, two of Ton-That’s associates loomed larger than most thanks to their close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member and Trump adviser: Jeff Giesea, a Thiel protégé and secret funder of alt-right causes, and Charles “Chuck” Johnson, a former Breitbart writer and far-right extremist who reportedly coordinated lawfare against media organizations with Thiel. And according to new documents obtained by HuffPost, Johnson appears to have received funding from Thiel for a startup that the Southern Poverty Law Center would label a “white nationalist hate group.”
Jailtime really?
Most phones on the planet have face recognition.
Makes me quite happy my colleagues could find any pictures of me online when asked to find one for a profile picture on a new system they were setting up.
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Meanwhile my company stresses about the GDPR ramifications of mentioning someone’s name in an obscure Slack channel.
> Clearview AI offers an app which customers can use to upload a photograph of someone to try and identify them by checking them against its unlawful database.
Bad enough if that’s available to any old government body that fancies it, but even worse if it’s available for commercial / personal use.
That said… Google Lens lets you upload any image and it’ll scour the web for similar (so presumably you could use it to try and find someone’s details based on an image of them, if you were a creep). It’s not nearly as purpose-built but I wonder if there’s enough similarity there to raise an eyebrow.
And these are the ones who got caught. It would be naive to believe these are the only ones doing this. And what a punishment – a slap on the wrist. This is not gonna deter anyone!
>Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO also fined Clearview £7.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK’s data protection laws.
>
>It’s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in Australia, France, and Italy.
>
>Clearview claims its facial recognition database contains some 20 billion images scraped from public sources like Facebook and Instagram. It previously sold its software to an array of private users and businesses, but recently agreed to restrict itself in the US to selling to federal agencies and police departments following a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
>
>In the UK, Clearview AI’s services have been used in the past by law enforcement customers including the Metropolitan Police, Ministry of Defence, and National Crime Agency. ICO says the company “no longer offers its services to UK organisations,” but notes that the data it has scraped from UK residents can still be used by customers in other countries. …
>
>([*The Verge: Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents*](https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23137603/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine))
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**reminder**:
>07/04/2020: [The Far-Right Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48)
>
>*Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.*
>
>In this far-right clique, two of Ton-That’s associates loomed larger than most thanks to their close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member and Trump adviser: Jeff Giesea, a Thiel protégé and secret funder of alt-right causes, and Charles “Chuck” Johnson, a former Breitbart writer and far-right extremist who reportedly coordinated lawfare against media organizations with Thiel. And according to new documents obtained by HuffPost, Johnson appears to have received funding from Thiel for a startup that the Southern Poverty Law Center would label a “white nationalist hate group.”
Jailtime really?
Most phones on the planet have face recognition.
Makes me quite happy my colleagues could find any pictures of me online when asked to find one for a profile picture on a new system they were setting up.
I don’t like the idea of being part of a face on http://thispersondoesnotexist.com
Think of all the illegal face scraping that’s going on of this is what we know.
if your image is in the public domain, surely its not yours anymore?
These are like real life cyberpunk comic book villains.
And I’m sure they made a cool billion from that, shut them down don’t give a pointless fine FFS BRITAIN SORT IT OUT