Beneficial?
"the company believes its technology is beneficial despite risks"
They don't say to who so I'll clarify.
It's beneficial to the execs and investors.
It's just risky to the rest of us.
Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc
Clearview AI is reportedly expanding its facial-recognition services beyond law enforcement to include private industries, such as banking and education, amid mounting pressure from regulators, Big Tech, and privacy campaigners. The New York-based startup's gigantic database contains more than 20 billion photos scraped from …
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Wednesday 25th May 2022 07:54 GMT Scott Broukell
"The potential of facial recognition technology to make our communities safer and commerce secure is just beginning to be realized" - Yes, and do you all remember how "digital technologies" made the same promises at the start of the century. And yet, here we are, some twenty years later, with consequentially far higher and ever increasing levels of financial/identity fraud and scamming on-line! Where software patches and updates are rolled out on a near daily basis!
No, Clearview (et al), I think that you, and others like you, simply want to protect businesses, their data sets and their profitability. I don't believe that this offers any real benefit to customers, but you will no doubt pull off the same illusory trick, so often used before, to fool everyone into letting you harvest all that lovely personal data! Only then to become evil gate-keepers of our individual daily drudgery.
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Wednesday 25th May 2022 08:05 GMT Mike 137
Interesting argument
"Italian regulators have fined the biz millions of dollars and Canadian watchdogs have banned its public agencies from contracting with the company."
"The UK's Information Commissioner's Office issued a £7.5 million ($9.43 million) fine for violating the country's data privacy laws"
"the company believes its technology is beneficial despite risks of misidentification or issues of data privacy and security. "Facial recognition can be used to help prevent identity theft and fraud."
So breaking the law is OK if it supports law enforcement?
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Wednesday 25th May 2022 08:48 GMT Pascal Monett
Re: Interesting argument
Fines are just the cost of doing business, and that's because the size of the fine does not increase exponentially with repeats.
I would favor a system where, the first time you are fined for a given problem, you get the standard amount to pay. If you are fined again for the same thing (for a relative value of same), the fine is automatically doubled, and so on and so forth.
With that system, the cost of doing business would soon become prohibitive, and slimy gits like Clearview's boss would just have to bow before authority.
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Wednesday 25th May 2022 09:23 GMT tip pc
These guys need to be stopped
Clearview promised to stop giving or selling access to its database system to most private companies and organizations across the US. Public agencies and law enforcement, however, can still use its large database. Private sector businesses, instead, can only use data they provide to the company's facial-recognition software; ie, they have to provide their own database of photos. Clearview is also not allowed to use that data to add to its database.
I don’t believe a word of that.
I hate censorship but these guys are building systems to censor ordinary citizens without citizens being able to challenge them.
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Wednesday 25th May 2022 11:11 GMT Plest
Re: Copyright?
"Photographs, illustrations and other images will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. This means that a user will usually need the permission of the copyright owner(s) if they want to perform certain acts, such as copying the image or sharing it on the internet."
Source: UK Gov Copyright
"Personality Rights. No image or representation of your appearance or voice can be used to promote an organization, product or cause without your permission. "
Source: US Copyright
So basicaly Clearview are absolute scum and should not be tolerated. Sadly we know that a ton of Government PHBs will be salivating at the prospect of all that cash in exchange for selling our images to that piece of shit company that kids itself and its shareholders that it's somehow progressing humanity and security.
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