Posted on 01/10/2021 8:40:12 AM PST by rktman
Clearview AI, a facial-recognition app law enforcement uses to track down criminals, has seen a surge in use since the Capitol Hill riots on Wednesday, according to the company’s CEO.
“There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume,” Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That told the New York Times.
There are many online photos and videos of rioters, often depicted not wearing masks, storming the Capitol. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has posted the faces of dozens of them and has asked the public for help in identifying them.
Local police departments across the country are heeding the FBI’s call.
Law enforcement also uses traditional facial recognition tools, like databases containing government-provided photos such as mugshots and driver’s licenses.
But Clearview, which, according to the company, is used by 2,400 law enforcement agencies, relies on a database of more than three billion photos from social media sites and other websites open to the public.
When an officer runs a search using the app, the app gives several links to websites where that person’s face has appeared.
Because the app has been so effective, Clearview’s existence has become controversial.
Last year, the New York Times published an investigation into the startup company, raising issues of privacy with its massive database of photos.
The company admitted in February 2020 that its entire client list had been stolen, including how many users each client has, and how many searches each client has completed using the service.
The company’s CEO also made headlines when he said he had a First Amendment right to go through billions of photos to add to his firm’s three-billion photo database.
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I want to use it to find out who the pictures of models, that the Russian romance scammers are sending me, really are.
In these days of the Wuhan Flu, who would go to a protest and not take advantage of masking their identity?
Ski mask sales are about to surge.
There was no riot.
I watched riots in June where sections of cities were looted and burned and Wednesday was no riot.
I believe that it very likely that antifa activists were part of the Capitol invasion.
We have heard of a few involved Trump supporters and we’ve heard their identies.
But there hasn’t been one leftie name announced (Tell me if I’m wrong). I heard 65 people were arrested. Who are they? Have some of those been released, charges dropped, and returned to their anarchical “work?”
We are living with a “statist” government, supported (or led) by journalists (sic), activists, artists, and information (DISinformation) technologists.
We’re witnessing the end of the Republic and the start of a new oligarchical government.
Trust Christ today. And tomorrow.
Next app to be introduced in the US is the Social Score app from China. Is your citizen totally on board with the Biden/Harris regime? Find out through this app. Low scores will lose you privileges like travel and job status. Don’t forget “We’re from the government and we’re here to help”.
...and I will gladly wear my face diaper and sun glasses.
How Chinese of them
There was no will to use this against Communists in America.
hundreds arrested at protests in Houston and almost all were cut loose and their arrest records purged free of charge so as not to harm their opportunities when seeking employment.
There is no equal protection under the law.
They even called last week’s gathering a super spreader event.
Someone who unmasked purposely for the narrative.
Which is why we should wear masks too
Or dress like Indians ....lol
Better go check your reputation score at MyLife, make sure you’re compliant /semi-sarc.
Dressing like Indians should send a message...!
With FBI, we can rest assured they are NOT looking for Antifah's... only patriots, need be identified.
Where is my lizzie warren full war paint face mask?
LOL. Would have been quite symbolic for any MAGA’s finding themselves in offices (Piglosi comes to mind), grabbing all the tax-payer funded Kuerig packs, and tossing them out the windows.
The one flaw is that it doesn’t recognize antifa rioters, apparently...
Imagine that...
People should be sending in the Pictures and Identities of the all the people that Stormed the Senate Building in 2018
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