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Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used,

let alone given any of the details about how it works.

Listen to Kill Switch on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

Josh, Chuck, Jerry, not Dave, but still Dave.

Let's go.

Didn't we do a whole episode on mirrors and maybe talk about breaking mirrors?

There's no way we didn't talk about that.

But this is definitely an exploded, expanded, really balloony version of that.

Yeah, because we're talking about the idea that if you break a mirror, if you are superstitious, a lot of people would say that brings you seven years of bad luck.

And we're going to dig into why that might be.

People have been superstitious ever since there have been people about different things.

And way before the mirror.

And apparently the Greeks were the first people to sort of just start talking about a reflection because the story of Narcissus falls in love with his image in the stream and drowns and dies.

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