How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes
Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things. X: @sociogeeks_ , @bronwynwilliams , and ...
Interviews with members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Meta's board, a departure that was years in the making
Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right Tweets: @daweiner , @lizzadwoskin , @sorayamcdonald , @jeffjarvis , @halsinger , @ydanasm...
Clearview AI CEO says Ukraine is using its facial recognition tech, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, for free to identify Russian attackers and the dead
Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …
Leaked pitch deck: Clearview AI told investors that it will have 100B facial photos in its database within a year, after growing to 10B+ since early 2020
because Congress is doing NOTHING to stop this — that it can get away with everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : In the absence of regulation, giants like Amazon,...
An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it
Firstly, welcome to my new blog! (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO Group has been caugh...
Clearview CEO says it has collected over 10B images from across the web and is building ways for police to find people, including deblurring and mask removal
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance. Tweets: @zittrain , @jetjocko , @brbarrett ...
Documents show Clearview AI subpoenaed internal docs and correspondence from advocacy groups and civil society coalitions that first exposed its activities
Alexandra S. Levine / Politico : Tweets: @awinston Tweets: Ali Winston / @awinston : How unsurprising that a Peter Thiel-backed company is using Peter Thiel's legal tactics https://www.politico.com/....
Documents show Clearview AI subpoenaed internal docs and correspondence from advocacy groups and civil society coalitions that first exposed its activities
Alexandra S. Levine / Politico :