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Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1846" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-app-lets-strangers-find-your-name-info-with-snap-of-a-photo-report-says/" target="_blank"><strong>Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says - Cnet</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It may not be long before you'll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report.</p><p></p><p>What if a stranger could snap your picture on the sidewalk, then <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html" target="_blank">use an app to quickly discover your name, address</a> and other details? A startup called <a href="https://clearview.ai/" target="_blank">Clearview AI</a> has made that possible, and its app is being used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the US, including the FBI, according to a Saturday report in The New York Times. </p><p></p><p>The app, says the Times, works by comparing a photo to a database of more than 3 billion pictures that Clearview says it's scraped off <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tags/facebook/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tags/venmo/" target="_blank">Venmo</a>, <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tags/youtube/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and other sites. It then serves up matches, along with links to the sites where those database photos originally appeared. A name might easily be unearthed, and from there other info could be dug up online.</p><p></p><p>The size of the Clearview database dwarfs others in use by law enforcement. The FBI's own database, which taps passport and driver's license photos, is one of the largest, with over 641 million images of US citizens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1846, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-app-lets-strangers-find-your-name-info-with-snap-of-a-photo-report-says/'][B]Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says - Cnet[/B][/URL] It may not be long before you'll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report. What if a stranger could snap your picture on the sidewalk, then [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html']use an app to quickly discover your name, address[/URL] and other details? A startup called [URL='https://clearview.ai/']Clearview AI[/URL] has made that possible, and its app is being used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the US, including the FBI, according to a Saturday report in The New York Times. The app, says the Times, works by comparing a photo to a database of more than 3 billion pictures that Clearview says it's scraped off [URL='https://www.cnet.com/tags/facebook/']Facebook[/URL], [URL='https://www.cnet.com/tags/venmo/']Venmo[/URL], [URL='https://www.cnet.com/tags/youtube/']YouTube[/URL] and other sites. It then serves up matches, along with links to the sites where those database photos originally appeared. A name might easily be unearthed, and from there other info could be dug up online. The size of the Clearview database dwarfs others in use by law enforcement. The FBI's own database, which taps passport and driver's license photos, is one of the largest, with over 641 million images of US citizens. [/QUOTE]
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