Are Your Social Media Photos Ending Up In a Law Enforcement Database?
The New York Times investigative reporter Kashmir Hill uncovered some unsettling details about Clearview AI – a facial recognition start-up that scrapes publicly available photos from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo and makes the data searchable by law enforcement – even if you're not suspect or convicted of committing a crime. Facial recognition is an incredibly useful consumer tool for organization burgeoning albums, but the privacy implications are enormous when third parties star...