Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms A California-based facial recognition biz has been directed by the US Federal Trade Commission to delete the AI models and algorithms that it developed by harvesting people's photos and videos without permission, a remedy that suggests privacy violators may no longer be allowed to benefit from ill-gotten data. Everalbum, a …
So they allowed Google to keep the models they developed after privacy rules were broken, but not this smaller company.
The Google decision set a precedent, so why make a different decision afterwards?
This decision creates an unfair playing field. Google benefits from both decisions and the smaller company can't compete with Google because of the decision.
Is it because Google is bigger?
For me it raises a larger concern about the integrity of the whole process, decision-making and penalties. Why did a larger and wealthy company get a more favourable decision?
> The Google decision set a precedent, so why make a different decision afterwards?
Perhaps this situation was slightly different so they felt that precedent didn't really apply or perhaps they now realise that precedent was not the best enforcement action they could have taken and decided to make a new, better precedent.
Or should we stick with whatever precedents were decided for crimes in the past? A justice system locked in stone for all eternity...
Bad precedents should be overturned. But this is rare, and should be rare.
Something goes to court and an expensive process takes place in which judges consider the laws and the evidence and make a decision.
Everybody expects the next case of the same time to have a similar outcome. This is good for judges, lawyers and the entities subject to the laws.
That is one reason I was so surprised at the outcome here.
There are two issues...
1) What if the company only slurped images that were made under creative commons license?
2) Favoritism towards Google...
The first issue is that with many posting photos without understanding licensing , w creative commons one can slup to one's content. So to attack the company... not good.
The other isn't just an issue of Google's size but the fact that the big tech... is now capable of censoring anything and anyone.
A legal way to quash competition. Biden is in their pocket. Just ask the NY Post.
We live in dangerous times.
Is it no wonder that 1984 and Animal Farm have seen a resurgence in sales?
I'm looking at their use of CC licensed images to train their model.
So there's no issue on any down stream licensing.
Note... even if they used the image in marketing material.. CC licenses are very permissive.
Note: CC == Creative Commons.
well, it's because they're working hand in glove with the PTB including the US military....google earth, total surveillance on everything....+ they also stole a lot of author's work, digitised it, made a lot of money from it...but never prosecuted for that either...! It's a corrupt perverse system rigged so the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful and the poor suffer even more....
when you throw them hard enough.
So let me get your story straight: you claim that you have a new face recognition AI online, built without using Ever's data set.
So, exactly, WHO'S data set DID you use to train your shiny new system??
Nice of you not to say.
Facebook? Scraping Google's scraping? Raid Instagram?
Your images for training had to come from somewhere. Did you get proper owner permissions for this task, even from the suckers that use Facebook?
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Why do I doubt that they did..??
I remember when they first introduced tagging people in photos. The long term implications were so immediately obvious I activity started asking people not to tag me. King Canute and holding back the tide. They've all got me no doubt, regardless of what I want and my total disdain for the lot of them.
And I did exactly the same. Despite not having a Facebook account, the grubby peddlers of stolen data still managed to get me tagged in a photo on another persons account.
My family and friends have been warned that all niceties between us will cease if they ever tag me on a photo they upload to Facebook.
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