Clearview facial recognition app should be the target of a class-action copyright lawsuit https://t.co/SMk4SLzhYj
— Tim Wu (@superwuster) January 18, 2020
Clearview facial recognition app should be the target of a class-action copyright lawsuit https://t.co/SMk4SLzhYj
— Tim Wu (@superwuster) January 18, 2020
A Peter Thiel-funded startup is scraping every photo it can find online (3 billion so far) to build a powerful facial recognition app that it’s selling to law enforcement. https://t.co/tLs0eFisq5
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) January 18, 2020
"Sure, that might lead to a dystopian future or something, but you can’t ban it.” -- David Scalzo, head of private equity firm that invested in Clearview
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) January 19, 2020
I don't follow this logic.https://t.co/FIxuVEgRry pic.twitter.com/yWaIzNxBVk
“The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It“ https://t.co/poCCdNnft9
— Sebastian Raschka (@rasbt) January 19, 2020
a) deliberately mass scrapping, hoarding & using — here: even selling!! — someone’s data w/o consent should be illegal. Like stalking; meaning, you can do sth doesn’t make it ok
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