New York facial-recognition company Clearview AI says it has collected 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media platforms to build its vast database of images that critics complain amount to a perpetual police line-up.
The company says its database has been used by police agencies nearly a million times to compare suspect images.On a warm afternoon in Houston's Herman Park, where people enjoyed the day while perusing and posting on social media, there was a bit of concern that some of those innocent posts might, also, be used to help identify a potential criminal.
Despite assurances on Clearview's website that We cannot and do not search any private or protected information, including private social media accounts," the company's CEO acknowledged to the BBC that the company took photos without users' knowledge while insisting the images are publicly available.
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