“Clearview App” ends privacy as we know it

[Media]

Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie — invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously, and provided it to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, ranging from local Florida cops to DHS.

His company, Clearview AI, devised a facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appear. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that are scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley.

Without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using the Clearview app to solve shoplifting, identity theft, credit card fraud, murder and child sexual exploitation cases.

The app, augmented with reality glasses, means users can potentially identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they live, what they did and whom they know.

Clearview has shrouded itself in secrecy, avoiding debate about its boundary-pushing technology.

“The weaponization possibilities of this are endless,” said…

Clearview App:
https://www.clearviewcctv.com/Tools/Mobile-App

Full story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/t...3A18%2000%3A00

[Unregistered]

Well 1984 is here! Whether it's Big Brother or his Little Cousin, once you are in a public place you have no expectation of privacy and anyone can gather anything they want about you. Social media is and will destroy this country as we know it.

[Unregistered]

Well 1984 is here! Whether it's Big Brother or his Little Cousin, once you are in a public place you have no expectation of privacy and anyone can gather anything they want about you. Social media is and will destroy this country as we know it.

Is there a federal legislative solution and, if so, what is it?