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Aktører
- Google sier de har valgt IKKE å utvikle slikt verktøy siden 2011

Clearview
Så dukker selskapet Clearview opp.
Et selskap som stjeler fjes fra Fracebook og andr kilder på nettet.
Og som selger verktøy for å laste opp et fjes og se om man finner det igjen .. og hvor.
Kjøperne er  politi og overvåkingsaktører.
Mer enn 600 slike har kjøpt løsningen.

Men det mangler ikke på advarsler:
- Hvor sikker er selskapet Clearview sin server ... kan opplastede bilder komme på avveie?



Clearview
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.

But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. 
Clearview’s app carries extra risks because law enforcement agencies are uploading sensitive photos to the servers of a company whose ability to protect its data is untested.

ompanies like Amazon offer products that can create a facial recognition program for any database of images.

“We’ve relied on industry efforts to self-police and not embrace such a risky technology, but now those dams are breaking because there is so much money on the table,” Mr. Hartzog said. “I don’t see a future where we harness the benefits of face recognition technology without the crippling abuse of the surveillance that comes with it. The only way to stop it is to ban it.” 

Even if Clearview doesn’t make its app publicly available, a copycat company might, now that the taboo is broken. Searching someone by face could become as easy as Googling a name. 


Skudeneshavn   28. mars 2020

Jan Marton Jensen
 


Kilde:

28. mars 2020
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/microsoft-to-sell-stakes-in-israeli-facial-recognition-startup-report-says-1.8717292

19. mars 2020
https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/norge/2020/03/19/195659246/pst-og-e-tjenesten-tause-om-clearview

18. januar 2020  Om appen Clearview
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

17. januar 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/17/eu-eyes-temporary-ban-on-facial-recognition-in-public-places


21. mai 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/21/facial-recognition-privacy-prepared-regulation

14. mai 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/tech/san-francisco-facial-recognition-ban/index.html

17. april 2019
https://twitter.com/mackenzief/status/1118509708673998848