Posted on 02/16/2020 12:41:10 PM PST by Twotone
If Hoan Ton-That is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it.
Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI.
First came a front-page investigation in The New York Times, revealing Clearview has been working with law enforcement agencies to match photos of unknown faces to people's online images. Next, cease-and-desist letters rolled in from tech giants Twitter, Google and Facebook. Lawmakers made inquiries and New Jersey enacted a statewide ban on law enforcement using Clearview while it looks into the software.
But during an interview at CNN's studios in New York City last week, Ton-That didn't seem particularly fazed, saying the last few weeks were "interesting."
He demonstrated the technology and described himself as "honored" to kick off a broader conversation about facial recognition and privacy. He's eager to build a "great American company" with "the best of intentions" and wouldn't sell his product to Iran, Russia or China, he said. He claimed the technology is saving kids and solving crimes. And he said he welcomes government regulation.
But so far, Ton-That and Clearview have triggered more concerns than acclaim.
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He claimed the technology is saving kids
Always great to use the phrase “saving kids”.
Tugs at the heartstrings.
Even mine.
But the right to privacy is a pretty important right.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I saw this guy interviewed on Fox a couple of days ago. “Good intentions” did not cross my mind, more like tons of money in his pocket, consequences be damned.
Wow. I’m going to invest in those little plastic photo corner holder things.
They already have complete control of our money, children, and speech... In addition, they are working on perfecting & imposing total thought control...
National facial-recognition data-basing will simply be icing on the cake...
Clearly all the dead Soviet leaders are spinning in their graves anguishing over the fact that none of them even dreamed that such total control of the serf was possible and that they missed out on the Soviet Union actually lasting a thousand years longer than it did...
Anybody associated with imposition of national "facial recognition" data-basing and/or it's use needs to be added to the list...
He reminded me of an alien from a bad Kung fu movie.
Good luck with my twin 8 year old grand daughters. After 8 years knowing them, I can’t tell them apart until I hear them speak.
That’ll be next..voice recognition.
Nothing good will come of this...
Good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.
A perfectly good science that the FBI abandoned in 1979.
“Always great to use the phrase “saving kids”.
Tugs at the heartstrings.
Even mine.”
And that’s why the libs use it in most of their causes.
Ever since the libs started this “it’s for the children” thing, I just could not connect with it.
There’s two reasons for this, one is my belief is all human life is precious beginning with conception up to the moment of death in elderly people.
I cannot see why children are singled out as somehow or another being more deserving. Which brings me to the second reason, if children are more deserving, then just why in the hubs of Hell is abortion permitted?
The answer is simple, all of us allow it to happen. Roe v Wade should have been reversed decades ago.
Diminishing vanity means I'm not likely ever to do so again.
I keep wondering who the hell that stranger in my mirror is, and if I don't know surely the PTB are unlikely to.
But all you pretty people might wanna back off on the selfies a little ;-)
Do you have a driver's license, or a passport? How about an employee/security badge?
Sure is.
“That’ll be next..voice recognition.”
That’s been around a while. But it is growing. I see Schwab is now using it when you set up a new account so in future when you call you are authenticated via voice recognition.
People rationalizing crap they make money off of, never tugs on my heartstrings.
The technology exists. It will be used. All the bans and privacy laws in the world will not affect that. it will be used by government and large corporations.Think NSA. NSA is surely imiplementing it even as we debate it. It inevitably gets cheaper and local PDs will all have it.
And yet governments in America do NOT want voter id.
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