The facial recognition software cops are raving about
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Clearview AI, widely used by U.S. law enforcement, can find a face anywhere on the internet thanks to a database of billions of scraped photos. Journalist Kashmir Hill, who recently published a book about Clearview, will tell us what it was like to investigate a company that’s always watching. Plus, the viability of a four-day workweek for blue-collar jobs and an electrical transformer shortage.
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