This AI Company took your Social Media image and then gave it to cops
Controversial Facial Recognition Database Scraped 30 Billion Photos from Social Media.
Clearview AI, a company that provides facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies, scraped over 30 billion photos from social media platforms, including Facebook, without the users’ permission, according to the company’s CEO, Hoan Ton-That.
The use of such facial recognition technology for identifying suspects or rescuing people in distress has raised privacy concerns among critics, who argue that it has led to wrongful arrests and violated civil liberties.
The company’s database, which is accessible to law enforcement, contains biometric face prints that may be cross-referenced with social media profiles and other identifying information. The database is lawfully collected and used only for after-the-crime investigations by law enforcement.
