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• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  Among the wild revelations in this @kashhill piece: Clearview AI was born out of a meeting with Peter Thiel and Chuck Johnson during the 2016 RNC, after a drunken discussion of physiognomy. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jameeljaffer Jameel Jaffer on x

  The First Amendment has become disconnected from the values it was meant to serve, exhibit 158. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @moonalice Roger McNamee on x

  This is terrifying ... and illustrates that Clearview AI is a threat to civil liberties, national security, and personal autonomy. @kashhill is a national treasure. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @evanchill Evan Hill on x

  The lack of any federal law regulating facial recognition meant that after Clearview AI had its enormous, legally dubious photo scraping operation exposed, its government business only grew. Big story from @kashhill https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @christineemba Christine Emba on x

  rarely does anything good come out of ‘drunken discussions of physiognomy.’ And that's before you factor in... all the other things. https://twitter.com/...

• @kimcrayton1 @kimcrayton1 on x

  Tech is not, nor has it ever been neutral or apolitical AND there're those with IMMENSE power & privileged who've DEMONSTRATED their willingness to leverage tech's unethical & immoral functionality THIS HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT “THE DEMOCRACY” IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY h…

• @hare_brain Stephanie Hare on x

  “A US federal agency called the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) periodically tests the accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms voluntarily submitted by vendors; Clearview hasn't participated.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @dispositive Gautam Hans on x

  Brilliant reporting by Kash on the origins of Clearview, which until now had not been public AFAIK. The motion to dismiss (including the First Amendment issue) in the ACLU case will be argued in early April. https://twitter.com/...

• @abebab Abeba Birhane on x

  Clearview AI is literally phrenology rehashed in a digital form https://twitter.com/...

• @green_footballs Charles Johnson on x

  I pointed out years ago that Chuck C. Johnson was meeting with Clearview AI hacker Ton-That. Nobody cared then. Here's a photo of them having dinner, throwing white power signs. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @reecejonesuh Dr. Reece Jones on x

  Charles Johnson is a holocaust denier not a “notorious conservative provocateur” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @privacyint @privacyint on x

  Guess what the founders of Smartcheckr and then Clearview were discussing in the run up to founding the company? Physiognomy. You can find out more about what it is and it's concerning history by listening to our podcast with @Dr_C_Thompson -> https://privacyinternational.org/ ..…

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  The tech investor Peter Thiel and Charles Johnson, a conservative provocateur, both played pivotal roles in the early days of Clearview AI, the facial-recognition software. In @NYTMag, @kashhill investigates the origins of the secretive start-up. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  Gee, great to know that Holocaust-denier Chuck C. Johnson is a part of creating one of the most intrusive, privacy-killing companies ever created. https://twitter.com/...

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x

  In this epic New York Times investigation of Clearview AI, @kashhill looks into the company's murky origins and finds far right provocateur Charles Johnson and Peter Thiel played significant roles, along with other conservative figures. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @kashhill Kashmir Hill on x

  I've also continued to investigate Clearview AI and how its facial recognition app is being used, such as one of the first times ICE used it to solve a crime, eventually leading to the agency's $224,000 contract with the company. https://twitter.com/...

• @kashhill Kashmir Hill on x

  After I reported the existence of Clearview AI in January 2020, the company's world exploded: lawsuits, international investigations, letters from senators. I've been talking to company CEO Hoan Ton-That through it all for this @nytmag cover story: https://www.nytimes.com/...