Clearview AI Hit With Sweeping Legal Complaints Over Controversial Face Scraping in Europe (theverge.com) 10
Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they've filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. From a report: The complaints filed in France, Austria, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company's method of documenting and collecting data -- including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites -- violates European privacy laws. New York-based Clearview claims to have built "the largest known database of 3+ billion facial images."
PI, NYOB, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, and Homo Digitalis all claim that Clearview's data collection goes beyond what the average user would expect when using services like Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube. "Extracting our unique facial features or even sharing them with the police and other companies goes far beyond what we could ever expect as online users," said PI legal officer Ioannis Kouvakas in a joint statement.
PI, NYOB, Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, and Homo Digitalis all claim that Clearview's data collection goes beyond what the average user would expect when using services like Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube. "Extracting our unique facial features or even sharing them with the police and other companies goes far beyond what we could ever expect as online users," said PI legal officer Ioannis Kouvakas in a joint statement.
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Can Bamm-Bamms still vote?
Personal IP and privacy. (Score:4, Interesting)
Sounds like the boundaries between public and private need clarification, and what one can and can't do in either one.
Re:Personal IP and privacy. (Score:5, Insightful)
A surveillance state depends upon public privacy being a silly thing.
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if i take photos in public AND use them for commercial use without the subjects rights permission you can bet im in the wrong, unless a release form for film/audio have suddenly been ruled invalid, no difference here, they are using images that they have no permission to use either from the website or the subjects
There are laws that cover this, they just need enforcing.
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As owner of the face you should consent to being exploited.
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I, and many Americans, have grown tired of the endless erosion of civil liberties by government!
After all, it just makes more sense to have it be a for-profit business instead. Where can I invest?!
Why is it “controversial”? (Score:5, Funny)
No one should be allowed to scrape your face without your permission. For one thing, it can be pretty painful.
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I've found through unintentional trial and error that the pavement never asked for permission before scraping my face.