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390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot (www.forbes.com)

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The controversial company, already notorious for amassing over 50 billion facial images scraped from social platforms, signed a contract in mid-2019 with Investigative Consultant, Inc. to acquire roughly 690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos from across all 50 U.S. states.

"The contract shows that Clearview was trying to get social security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and other personal information along with the mugshots," said Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Best we can do is protecting guns

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

And we don’t even use them effectively to protect our rights.