- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Clearview AI offers its clients a system that works like a search engine for faces - users upload a photo and it finds matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.It then provides links to where matching images appear online.
In March, Clearview’s founder Hoan Ton-That said it had run nearly a million searches for US police, helping them to solve a range of crimes, including murders.
He also revealed its database contained 30 billion images scraped from the internet.
Critics argue that law enforcement’s use of Clearview’s technology puts everyone into a “perpetual police line-up”.
France, Italy and Australia had also taken action against the firm.
I don’t see how this could be illegal if Google’s reverse image search gets a pass.