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390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GreyAlien@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/03/22/390-million-faces-clearview-ais-secret-750000-attempt-to-buy-your-mugshot/

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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wish for once this country could pass an unambiguously good law to protect people’s privacy.

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Best we can do is protecting guns

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      • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And we don’t even use them effectively to protect our rights.

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Best we can do is require photo ID for porn.

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      • klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Clearview buys photo-ID-for-porn database in 3… 2… 1…

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    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Illinois has a law against collecting biometric data.

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      • kipo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you know what their enforcement mechanism is for a situation like this, where a company like Clearview is doing it against Illinois residents but it’s all happening online?

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you’ve been inside a Walmart or target or many other major retailers in the last 5 years, you’re already in the database.

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    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Walmart alone is a scary good at this. They have dedicated teams towards facial and item theft recognition. They won’t even report your theft until it reaches grand larceny they will simply tally the theft. Because there is no point in arresting a 20 dollar theft or having a case to prosecute with teams of lawyers.

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      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It should be a crime to gather that much data as a private entity

        The whole “building a profile to sue people” would bother me a lot less if they weren’t stealing from their own workers

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