BipolarExpat
Accomplished faker
- May 30, 2019
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Personal privacy will end, except for the elite -super elites. (I'm sure they'll be able to buy or trade for some.)
As for the rest of us,...
if our tvs/computers or online accounts aren't keeping good enough track of us, our smartphones are certainly putting us firmly on the grid, and implants,...well - it's already a trend among certain groups.
If you manage to sidestep all those, then the incredible proliferation of CCTVs combined with facial recognition should keep you in line.
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
Until recently, Hoan Ton-That's greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump's distinctive yellow hair on their own photos.
Then Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie and onetime model — did something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously, and provided it to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, ranging from local cops in Florida to the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security.
His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.
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As for the rest of us,...
if our tvs/computers or online accounts aren't keeping good enough track of us, our smartphones are certainly putting us firmly on the grid, and implants,...well - it's already a trend among certain groups.
If you manage to sidestep all those, then the incredible proliferation of CCTVs combined with facial recognition should keep you in line.
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
Then Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie and onetime model — did something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously, and provided it to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, ranging from local cops in Florida to the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security.
His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.
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