What Twitter’s response to Clearview tells us about facial recognition’s future
https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/twitter-clearview-facial-recognition
Technological developments can break down all sorts of boundaries, distinctions and seperations. The most recent of these ruptures has led to a battle over who owns our faces.
It has been reported that Twitter has demanded that the AI company Clearview stops harvesting faces from user profiles. The reports suggest that these openly available images have been captured and stored for use in the development and deployment of facial recognition technology. Twitter want this to stop and the harvested pictures to be deleted.
What Twitter’s response to Clearview tells us about facial recognition’s future
Feb 3, 2020, 4:17pm UTC
https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/twitter-clearview-facial-recognition
> Technological developments can break down all sorts of boundaries, distinctions and seperations. The most recent of these ruptures has led to a battle over who owns our faces.
> It has been reported that Twitter has demanded that the AI company Clearview stops harvesting faces from user profiles. The reports suggest that these openly available images have been captured and stored for use in the development and deployment of facial recognition technology. Twitter want this to stop and the harvested pictures to be deleted.