[D66] Clearview

[A.OUT]

(Kortom, post nooit privé-foto's op het internet. #deletefacebook)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

By Kashmir Hill

     Jan. 18, 2020

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Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone 
game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow 
hair on their own photos.

Then Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie and onetime model — did 
something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to 
walk down the street anonymously, and provided it to hundreds of law 
enforcement agencies, ranging from local cops in Florida to the F.B.I. 
and the Department of Homeland Security.

His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial 
recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to 
see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos 
appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three 
billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, 
YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything 
ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.

Federal and state law enforcement officers said that while they had only 
limited knowledge of how Clearview works and who is behind it, they had 
used its app to help solve shoplifting, identity theft, credit card 
fraud, murder and child sexual exploitation cases.

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