A startup, billions of images, and the end of anonymity
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 1:06.4 | flash reset. Last week I opened up my phone and read an article in the New York Times that freaked me out. |
| 1:18.0 | The story covered a company named Clearview AI. It makes a service for law enforcement. And the way the company talks about itself makes it seem like it's straight out of an episode of Black Mirror. |
| 1:30.4 | Submit a photo of a person you'd like to identify, and the company searches a database of billions of photos until it finds a match. |
| 1:39.0 | And here's the thing. These images have been taken from social media accounts like Facebook or |
| 1:45.3 | Twitter. So with one image from say a security camera you can figure out someone's identity |
| 1:52.2 | in seconds. |
| 1:53.0 | If true, this could make clear view the most powerful facial recognition program ever. |
| 1:59.0 | The New York Times article suggested that this could put an end to anonymity in public spaces. |
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