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Privacy: Clearview AI stole 30 billion photos from Facebook and put them into a digital Police Line up DB

Privacy: Clearview AI stole 30 billion photos from Facebook and put them into a digital Police Line up DB

A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a “perpetual police line-up,” even for people who haven’t done anything wrong. Source: Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’ The photos were stolen without…

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