I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

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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@maxkennerly The Internet’s Own Boy is a great documentary for anyone unfamiliar with Aaron Swartz’s case…

https://youtu.be/3Q6Fzbgs_Lg

#tech #privacy

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Must Watch Documentary 2014)

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Must Watch Documentary 2014)

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