Wantan Tatt is the CEO and co-founder of Clearview AI, which is involved in facial recognition in order to help law enforcement catch criminals.

The company has had a little bit of, let's call it controversy or

notability around the technology and the fact that it exists.

My opening preamble, this technology has existed for a long time,

facial recognition, and anybody who's involved in a crime, or victim of a crime I should say would very much like

to have the perpetrator caught and if they were caught on a CCTV a closed circuit

television system which we have all over the place now in cities

London has I think more CCTV's than people you would want that person caught

and brought to justice.

However, we all know that any system that can be abused will be abused and you don't want people having access to a tool like this who might be

a stalker or might want to harass somebody.

And certainly the same technology used by a group of people in an authoritarian country, let's say China, could be used

to round up hundreds of thousands and millions of people in a certain demographic to be sent to

re-education camps.

A re-education camp in China might be viewed by the majority of the Western world as

more akin to a prison or a concentration camp where people are tortured and

where people are starved and where people are abused because of their views of the world.

With something as simple as religion.

So with that backdrop, Juan reached out to us actually and said, hey, I'd love to talk.

You know, I guess you're a fan of the podcast and you wanted to come on and talk about your technology and what you're working on.

How would you prevent a police officer, a detective rather, in this any town, New York, from taking a picture of their, I don't

know, ex-girlfriend, ex-her, their ex-wife, whatever it is, or just somebody they wanted to harass, a friend of their ex-wife whatever it is or just somebody they wanted to harass a friend of their

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