Clearview AI

@PongVamos In fairness, the lawyers representing Thiel's Clearview AI firm as well as its employee Weev, along with DDoSecrets IC influence network and its participants have countered with this intriguing counter-argument. https://t.co/wzehYI8mMQ

@mentalhead0 @Veritas1827687 @AndrewKolvet @JesseBWatters Security cameras and social media. Clearview AI is a company that scrapes faces from social media then catalogues them so they can be used with security camera footage to identify individuals, for example.

Real-World Precedents Clearview AI (EU & U.S.): In 2022, Italy’s Garante Privacy fined Clearview €20 million and banned processing of Italian citizens’ facial data under GDPR. Similar bans came from the UK ICO and France’s CNIL. Illinois BIPA (Biometric Information Privacy Act): Class actions against Facebook, Goo…

"As the agency chases aggressive deportation quotas, Ice is set to gain even more personal data from federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, as well as from new tools such as facial-recognition software made by Clearview AI. 1/2 https://t.co/bDPs2Qf6E0

"PenLink, which merges mass location tracking with social media monitoring; Flock’s license plate reader network; Clearview AI’s facial recognition database; and Palantir’s powerful data-integration and analysis systems." 19/

RCMP's use of facial recognition extends well beyond Clearview AI https://t.co/LnOfglVaXC

Rather interestingly James Comey was Steve Bannon’s handler when Bannon was an FBI informant. More intriguingly still Comey reportedly told the New York Daily News Richard Schwartz — yes, the current co-CEO of https://t.co/kCSRKtsUNT — that he had been molested by a Catholic priest as a boy. Abuse victims probably …

Then there’s their illegal use of Clearview AI to match 4 billion images of random people’s faces around the world to aid in investigation, which they denied using, then claimed only a little, then admitted once the Privacy Commissioner forced it out of them.

ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers

ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently spent nearly four million dollars on facial recognition technology in part to investigate people it believes have assaulted law enforcement officers, according to procurement r…

📰 via @fedscoop: Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped the internet for images of people’s faces for its database, is building a tool to deal with an emerging problem: AI-generated faces. https://t.co/mwN6A282UI

Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped the internet for images of people’s faces for its database, is building a tool to deal with an emerging problem: AI-generated faces. https://t.co/SVGTj6CtGx https://t.co/xQ5Z79gk2P

@RonDeSantis Time to ban Clearview AI in FL and their practice of scraping social media sites for photos to populate their facial recognition databases. Tech companies should not be able to collect or scrape someone's biometrics without their consent.