Goodbye privacy

[Pauls' Revere]

https://dnyuz.com/2020/01/18/the-sec...as-we-know-it/

His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.
Federal and state law enforcement officers said that while they had only limited knowledge of how Clearview works and who is behind it, they had used its app to help solve shoplifting, identity theft, credit card fraud, murder and child sexual exploitation cases.
Until now, technology that readily identifies everyone based on his or her face has been taboo because of its radical erosion of privacy. Tech companies capable of releasing such a tool have refrained from doing so; in 2011, Google’s chairman at the time said it was the one technology the company had held back because it could be used “in a very bad way.” Some large cities, including San Francisco, have barred police from using facial recognition technology.

But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they lived, what they did and whom they knew.
And it’s not just law enforcement: Clearview has also licensed the app to at least a handful of companies for security purposes.
“The weaponization possibilities of this are endless,” said Eric Goldman, co-director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University. “Imagine a rogue law enforcement officer who wants to stalk potential romantic partners, or a foreign government using this to dig up secrets about people to blackmail them or throw them in jail.”

[PRB]

technology is the death of privacy, welcome to 2006. When every person was able to afford a camera phone that not only took good pictures, but can instantly share it. Today, we can instantly broadcast live video to thousands of people (provided they want to see it).

[DamianTV]

The Death of Privacy is the Death of Independence.

Every action of your life will be a data point fed into a machine that determines your "appropriate role" in life. No longer will ambition and motivation drive a person to rise above their circumstances, rather, we will not be funded and will be damned by it.

[kpitcher]

I like knowing that wearing a face mask, glasses, and a hat totally messes with facial recognition. This is the typical look for contractors at home depot nowadays and I'm all for this being a continuing option. When it becomes illegal to wear a medical face mask we know big brother is getting serious.

[DamianTV]

I like knowing that wearing a face mask, glasses, and a hat totally messes with facial recognition. This is the typical look for contractors at home depot nowadays and I'm all for this being a continuing option. When it becomes illegal to wear a medical face mask we know big brother is getting serious.

They dont need facial recognition when they have cell phones that far too many people volunteer EVERY shred of private data to.

Just wait until our "coin shortage" turns into the end of cash. That is the end of transactional privacy. PayPal already says you cant buy guns or ammo using their bank acct. What happens when Wells Fargo tells you that you arent allowed to buy certain items at the grocery store because you are too fat or your cholesterol is too high?

[kpitcher]

They dont need facial recognition when they have cell phones that far too many people volunteer EVERY shred of private data to.

Just wait until our "coin shortage" turns into the end of cash. That is the end of transactional privacy. PayPal already says you cant buy guns or ammo using their bank acct. What happens when Wells Fargo tells you that you arent allowed to buy certain items at the grocery store because you are too fat or your cholesterol is too high?

Time to increase support for Bitcoin and other crypto. Financial institutes + Retail make far too much off of gift cards to do away with near anonymous usage. Yes going to less cash is already a stated goal in a few countries, we should prepare by ensuring anonymous methods of digital still exist.