Thursday, October 24, 2024

Facial Recognition and Your Privacy




There is no anonymity in a world where the individual's face is catalogued using facial recognition technologies. Privacy is not guaranteed and is hard to define. In an 1890 Harvard Law Review article it is defined as "the right to be let alone." The authors of the article, Samuel D. Warren, Jr. and Louis D. Brandeis, wanted the right to privacy to be protected by law, along with those other enshrined rights.

"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database. And none of the millions of people who made up that database had given their consent. Clearview AI represents our worst fears, but it also offers, at long last, the opportunity to confront them." - Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill's book Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy has been shortlisted for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

The other side of the conversation comes from Clearview AI which states that its mission "is protecting our families, making our communities more secure and strengthening our national security and defense. We help law enforcement and governments in disrupting and solving crime, while also providing financial institutions, transportation, and other commercial enterprises to verify identities, prevent financial fraud, and combat identity theft."

Clearview AI collected 30 billion images from social media platforms to share with law enforcement. A photo you may have on Facebook or Instagram is likely part of Clearview’s database, enabling potential tracking and identification without your knowledge or consent. At the present moment, Clearview AI has over 50 billion images.
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