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Re:The file Clearview AI has been keeping on me by llarsson on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:17PM (#22451609)
Google has all the data and algorithmic chops required for this, too.

Just use their reverse image search feature, as helpfully explained here:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?co=GENIE...

They have tons of images from social media sites, too.

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Re:The file Clearview AI has been keeping on me by danso on Saturday February 29, 2020 @05:04PM (#22453485)
But image similarity is not the same as face recognition. I just uploaded the photo the author gave to Clearview, and it returned none of the photos Clearview found – just other front-facing flatly-lit mugshots of other people.

Of course Google can do this internally (and FAcebook could do it even better) – but the public-facing image search does not do what Clearview purports to do.

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Re:The file Clearview AI has been keeping on me by baybal2 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:51PM (#22451857)
Google actually already does image recognition internally, and they did it for at least 5+ years.
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