News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images. Parent comment

Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by AndrewBissell on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:35PM (#22085706)
The gross invasion of privacy is not taking pictures of people in public spaces. It's cross-referencing those pictures against images people have uploaded to various online services, many of them before this kind of use in facial recognition databases had even been conceived by anyone except science fiction writers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by quotemstr on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:41PM (#22085739)
If it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my eyes and my brain, it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my computer.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by AndrewBissell on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:56PM (#22085828)
When lone individuals go trawling social media sites for pictures of some random stranger they met on the street, this is commonly understood as creepy at best and (especially to the extent they are violating the terms of the platforms) an invasion of privacy at worst.
[ Parent | on HN ]