https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210514/17031446808/time-magazine-lauds-clearview-ai-despite-sketchy-facial-recognition-tech.shtml

Time

Companies, featuring an array of large and small corporations that

“are helping to chart an

essential

path forward.”

Disturbingly, among its choices of “disruptors” is

Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition start-up known for

illicitly scraping Americans’ images and demographic

information from social media and selling the data to law

enforcement. By celebrating a company that engages in illegal mass

surveillance, Time is complicit in the degradation of our privacy and

our civil liberties.

Even cursory

disreputable practices. Perhaps Time was satisfied with the vague

explanation from Clearview AI’s CEO, Hoan Ton-That, that the

company is “working with law enforcement to balance privacy and

security.” But it’s hard to understand why, after

substantial

reporting by other members of the media, Time chose to

accept Ton-That’s word when there is conclusive evidence that

Clearview AI continues to violate civil liberties by supplying law

enforcement agencies, private banks and sports teams with billions of

illegally collected images.