Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up' (Business Insider): https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

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@chrisamico
I'm surprised that anyone is surprised by this.

People that give their data to social media should expect that, sooner or later, their data will be sold.

Worse will come out into the public spotlight - it's only a matter of time.

To expect anything less is being extremely naive.

@chrisamico There's a reason I've kept accurate representations of myself off the internet; photographic, and voice.

The eyeball you see up there, with "comic book" effect distortion by way of Photo Booth from an entry-level 2013 white MacBook, cropped?

That's the most people are going to see of me, easily identifiable, in a recorded medium. There may exist, somewhere, a video segment with me off in the distance on a panel discussion, but you'd really need to know where to look. …and when. 😮‍💨