People are rightfully worried about their faces being part of the 60 billion that were captured by a company called Clearview AI. Unless you have somehow been able to dodge security cameras, family photos, video from people recording events on their phones or snapping photos for social media, then a picture of your face is likely already sitting deep inside their database. With only 333 million people living in the United States, it’s very likely that most people’s likenesses are captured inside that facial database multiple times.
The original founder and CEO of the company, Hoan Ton-That, was apparently not a fan of using their database to assist with government surveillance. But he recently resigned from his position. The new company leader, Hal Lambert, has stated that one of the new goals of Clearview is to get its facial database into the hands of the government, and hopefully land some lucrative government contracts.
In terms of the database itself, Clearview says it acquired pictures of people by scraping the internet in a variety of ways that included both manual capture techniques and also automation driven by AI. Earlier this year, company officials said the database had 60 billion faces, and that number continues to grow.
It’s actually a surprisingly easy process to identify and grab faces for a database, either manually by hand or ..
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