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Topic	Creepy dude is stockpiling ALL online photos of you (even just in background)
streamofthesky 02/26/20 5:57:20 PM #1:	https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/tech/clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that/index.html Clearview AI is controversial for many reasons, but perhaps the most important is its massive database. The company claims to have scraped more than 3 billion photos from the internet, including from popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Not only that, but Clearview retains those photos in its database even after users delete them from the platforms or make their accounts private. Clearview sells access to its database to law enforcement agencies, so those agencies can match unknown faces to other images. The parts of Ton-That's demonstration that spooked my producer and me his access to photos that are no longer publicly available online and his ability to find a photo of me as a minor are likely among the things his law enforcement clients find appealing. He said more than 600 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada are using the tool, a number CNN Business has not independently verified, and when asked, he wouldn't specify how many are paying customers versus those using free trials. He also said that a number of banks are using Clearview software for fraud investigations, but declined to name any of the banks. Technology companies have essentially no control of what happens to data, in this case pictures, after they are downloaded from their platforms. Ensuring someone actually complies with a cease-and-desist letter when it comes to data is also essentially impossible. Once images are downloaded, as they have been by Clearview, they can be copied again and again, stored on multiple computers and servers in different places all around the world, and that's even before they are distributed or made available to third parties. Clearview's clients can access the images. Pretty fucked up. Anyone who cares at all about privacy rights, big government, or so on should be disturbed by this. While nothing can really stop nefarious groups from scraping pics online in the same way, I think we could at least pass laws to prevent it from becoming big business for mainstream tech companies and blocking law enforcement agencies from being able to use it. Oh btw, the above article was from 2 weeks ago, I kind of slacked on making a topic about it even though I meant to. I was reminded of the issue today, because BONUS ROUND: Clearview's entire database has already been hacked! Yay... https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/tech/clearview-ai-hack/index.html That sure didn't take long to snowball, did it? <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:934917022] in Creepy dud... [t:78433792]...</cite> <quote>https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/tech/clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that/index.html <quote>Clearview AI is controversial for many reasons, but perhaps the most important is its massive database. The company claims to have scraped more than 3 billion photos from the internet, including from popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Not only that, but Clearview retains those photos in its database even after users delete them from the platforms or make their accounts private. Clearview sells access to its database to law enforcement agencies, so those agencies can match unknown faces to other images.</quote> <quote>The parts of Ton-That's demonstration that spooked my producer and me his access to photos that are no longer publicly available online and his ability to find a photo of me as a minor are likely among the things his law enforcement clients find appealing. He said more than 600 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada are using the tool, a number CNN Business has not independently verified, and when asked, he wouldn't specify how many are paying customers versus those using free trials. He also said that a number of banks are using Clearview software for fraud investigations, but declined to name any of the banks.</quote> <quote>Technology companies have essentially no control of what happens to data, in this case pictures, after they are downloaded from their platforms. Ensuring someone actually complies with a cease-and-desist letter when it comes to data is also essentially impossible. Once images are downloaded, as they have been by Clearview, they can be copied again and again, stored on multiple computers and servers in different places all around the world, and that's even before they are distributed or made available to third parties. Clearview's clients can access the images.</quote> Pretty fucked up. Anyone who cares at all about privacy rights, big government, or so on should be disturbed by this. While nothing can really stop nefarious groups from scraping pics online in the same way, I think we could at least pass laws to prevent it from becoming big business for mainstream tech companies and blocking law enforcement agencies from being able to use it. Oh btw, the above article was from 2 weeks ago, I kind of slacked on making a topic about it even though I meant to. I was reminded of the issue today, because BONUS ROUND: Clearview's entire database has already been hacked! Yay... https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/tech/clearview-ai-hack/index.html That sure didn't take long to snowball, did it? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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