Having personal data on billions of people with their faces for use with law enforcement effectively makes everyone and anyone trackable by police. We have said on Electropages in two separate articles that the use of Clearview AI is unethical. How Clearview AI is helping the Ukrainian effort For example, the UK has recently fined Clearview AI £17m for breaches of GDPR while Italy has issued a fine of €20m. In fact, the public reaction to Clearview AI has been so adverse that governments worldwide have started to launch investigations and issue fines to the company with ultimatums to remove photos of their citizens from their database. Even though the pictures are downloaded from publicly available sources, using that data for law enforcement and creating databases is a violation of privacy, GDPR, and copyright (as individuals own their likeness in photos). This means that random innocent people on the street will never have their details held by local law enforcement, but the Clearview AI database effectively does this. The problem with this practice is that records are only ever made on citizens when they have been arrested for a crime. This database has then been sold on to law enforcement, who can then use the system to track individuals down and potentially link people to crime scenes. While facial recognition is nothing new, Clearview AI has come under flak for its creation of a database that links found faces with links to profiles and personal information. There is no doubt that the system is powerful. Why Clearview AI has been seen as immoral by the massesĬlearview AI is a software company specialising in AI facial recognition software trained using billions of images scoured from the internet. But the system is now being used to identify Russian agents active in Ukraine, which could provide a significant edge against terror and insurgency. At Electropages, we have said in two separate articles how Clearview AI has used immoral practices by supplying law enforcement with a database of over 3 billion people.
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