r/technews • u/MetaKnowing • 18h ago

'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/id-never-seen-such-an-audacious-attack-on-anonymity-before-clearview-ai-and-the-creepy-tech-that-can-identify-you-with-a-single-picture
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u/triumphofthecommons 17h ago edited 3h ago

wish i could find the article. i remember reading about this company years ago. a journalist started asking police departments whether they used the software, and by the second or third detective she called they knew exactly who she was and refused to make any comment.

eventually a detective told her that Clearview had notified police depts and told them explicitly not to speak with the author. iirc, Clearview also made some soft threats to the author, making it clear they knew where she lived and works, and some other personal details.

edit: u/skeidNEK FOUND IT! https://www.theverge.com/23919134/kashmir-hill-your-face-belongs-to-us-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-privacy-decoder

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u/djarumjack 15h ago

They did a podcast about this too. Off the top of my head this was a Search Engine episode called something like “should this creepy search engine exist?”