Clearview AI promises not to sell face-recognition database to most US businesses

Clearview AI has promised to stop selling its controversial face-recognizing tech to most private US companies in a settlement proposed this week with the ACLU. The New-York-based startup made headlines in 2020 for scraping billions of images from people's public social media pages. These photographs were used to build a …

[Neil Barnes]

So did I read that correctly?

To remove yourself from the database of images you have to submit a photo of yourself?

[Kane]

Re: So did I read that correctly?

"To remove yourself from the database of images you have to submit a photo of yourself?"

Thereby creating an absolutely brand new database of images to not look up against!

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: So did I read that correctly?

The actual quote from Clearview is "block its facial recognition software from finding matches for their face", which it quite different and even worse!

Not only do you have to submit a good and clear photo of yourself to "opt out", you cannot opt out of the database itself, only opt out of the search results.

A real opt-out would search their database and remove all the matches!

[katrinab]

Re: So did I read that correctly?

Can you send your takedown request in the form of a DMCA notice?

[Potemkine!]

Choice 101

Opt-out: bad

Opt-in: good

[devin3782]

<sarcasm>Of course we all believe them</sarcasm>

[Version 1.0]

Post your picture on the Internet?

Essentially this ought to be a tax deductible donation that you can reclaim. You may think that you are only posting on social media to your friends, but all these companies are making billions from your "donations" and paying no taxes because technically you made a donation to the billionaires running all these companies.

[trindflo]

And outside the US?

I didn't notice any restrictions to selling the database to Pootie or the grand Pooh-Bah.