#ClearView

[utopicwork]

"Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration."

[fontseeker]

Hey I was wondering what font they use on road signs in Canada?

Canadian road signs traditionally used Highway Gothic (1948), officially designated "the Standard Alphabets For Traffic Control Devices", which was originally established by the US Federal Highway Administration and is now used by many different countries.

But some newer signs have started using Clearview (2003) instead, which is supposedly more legible.

There's also some other fonts that have been used on a small minority of signs, like Helvetica (1957) and apparently even Century Schoolbook (1924). (I'd like to see a photo of that one.)

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[kitsune24fox]

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How do you fall so gracefully

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[r0bita]

Reject #ClearviewCopOut Settlement

Clearview AI, the notorious facial recognition company, is poised to settle a lawsuit that includes virtually everyone—including you.

If you’ve been on social media between 2017 and now, you are most likely involved in this case, and you can help make sure Clearview doesn't get off easy. Take action now and reject this Clearview settlement and opt out.

Here's the background: since 2017 Clearview has scraped billions of images from websites and created a massive database with our photos.2 This database uses facial recognition technology to identify people, and has been sold to many clients, including cops.

Clearview has been sued many times for its attack on our rights, and several of these cases joined together in a consolidated class action lawsuit out of Illinois. Clearview is now set to settle this case, but this settlement doesn’t offer the protection our community deserves and allows Clearview to continue with business as usual: selling our faces in exchange for a payout that could be as little as pennies.

We’re calling this settlement for what it is: a cop out instead of real changes to their shady business practices. You can help fight this cop out by opting out of the settlement deal. Here is a website where you can easily go through the steps to opt out.

[readingsquotes]

"Paranoia about the “radical left” seemed to infuse their business decisions. As part of their plan to use facial recognition in apartment lobbies, they intended to scan the faces of tenants and compare them to mugshots. But Ton-That noted in an email that he also wanted to run them through “any criminal database we have (antifa)” or to see if they were “friends with criminals.” He assumed a link between leftist politics and criminality. “I think every real estate firm will sign up,” he told his co-founders. “Especially ones in diverse areas.”

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Journalists were another target. In May 2017, Bass emailed Cassandra Fairbanks, a far-right activist whom the first Trump administration allowed into press briefings, to ask for the names and emails of reporters in the White House press pool. This would potentially enable Ton-That and his partners to surface social media accounts, pull photos, and, as Bass put it, investigate the “leanings” of the journalists. Fairbanks quickly sent the names and emails of eight reporters to Bass, who forwarded the details to Ton-That. “These shills are high-priority,” Bass wrote. “Dope this is going into smartcheckr,” Ton-That replied. The company later created a “Politicians – Academics – Journalists” category in its biometric database.

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In Trump’s first term, ICE also dispatched HSI agents to racial justice protests that erupted around the country after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. HSI monitored other liberal or left-leaning events, labeling them in an internal document published by the ­Nation as “anti-Trump” protests, including a peaceful 2018 rally in Manhattan organized by a Democratic congressman to protest a white nationalist hate group.

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“All of the evidence we have is that [Clearview] is a corporation that cares not at all about civil rights and that their founders have a potentially ideological agenda inconsistent with democracy,” says Emily Tucker, executive director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology. “None of that has seemed to slow down their ability to get government contracts in the US or abroad.”

Nobody in a position to hold the company accountable seemed to care about its far-right DNA—and few wanted to consider that the threat to privacy and democracy might not be an unfortunate by-product of the tech, but rather a feature. Tucker said her organization discussed Clearview’s extremist ties with several Biden administration officials, as well as congressional staffers, and she was surprised and concerned by the lack of follow-up. Most media coverage of the company left the issue unmentioned or, worse, downplayed what was known—one interviewer for the financial magazine Inc. described the extremists at Clearview as “rogue employees” who had “infiltrated the company.”

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The use of Clearview’s facial recognition tech by US law enforcement is controversial in and of itself, and it turns out some police officers can use it “for personal purposes.”

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/indiana-cop-used-facial-recognition-scans-to-preform-non-work-related-searches

#TheFreeThoughtProject

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[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Clearview trotzt allen Bußgeldbescheiden

Kleine Datenschutzbehörden gegen große Tech-Konzerne

Immerhin hat die EU wenigstens Regeln zum Schutz unser aller Privatsphäre. Sie sind Mindeststandards und noch weit ausbaufähig - aber immerhin. Nun braucht es auch Menschen, die diese Regeln durchsetzen. Das wären die EU Datenschutzbehörde und die darunter angesiedelten nationalen Behörden.

Da liegt schon das 1. Problem, denn diese nationalen Datenschützer haben durchaus verschiedene Ausgangspositionen, so war die irische Datenschutzbehörde stets den Wünschen ihrer Regierung - ausländische Investoren nicht zu verprellen - hörig.

Das 2. Problem liegt in der mangelhaften Ausstattung der nationalen und vor allem der EU Datenschutzbehörde. Telepolis.de berichtet über die (bisher vergeblichen) Versuche in der EU die Tätigkeit des US Unternehmens Clearview einzuschränken.

Telepolis.de schreibt: "Seit 2020 ist bekannt, dass die US-Firma Clearview über mehrere Jahre im Netz mehrere Milliarden Fotos für eine KI-Datenbank für biometrische Zwecke gesammelt hat. ... Das Unternehmen selbst zielt, wie das linksliberale US-Magazin Mother Jones berichtet, auf die Verfolgung von Migranten und Linken ab."

Obwohl das Unternehmen von der EU zu hohe Bußgeldzahlungen verurteilt wurde, hat Clearview noch keinen Cent bezahlt und sammelt auch in der EU weiter Gesichter. Dabei nutzt Clearview alle öffentlich zugängigen Quellen und erfasst dort Bilder und versucht sie mit den Namen der abgebildeten Personen zu verknüpfen.

Im Oktober 2022 wurde Clearview auch in Frankreich zu einer Geldbuße in Höhe von 20 Millionen Euro verurteilt wegen der Erhebung und Verarbeitung von Daten von in Frankreich ansässigen Personen ohne Rechtsgrundlage. Clearview sollte die Bilder innerhalb von zwei Monaten löschen oder für jeden Tag darüber hinaus weitere 100.000 Euro zahlen.

Der damalige Firmenchef Hoan Ton-That hatte daraufhin argumentiert, dass man anhand von Bild und evtl. Name nicht die französische Staatsbürgerschaft ableiten könne und deshalb ein Löschen unmöglich sei. So laviert sich das Unternehmen auch an ähnlichen Strafen aus Griechenland und den Niederlanden vorbei.

Da Clearview keinen Sitz in der EU hat fehlt den Datenschutzbehörden ein Hebel, um Druck auf den Konzern auszuüben. Darin zeigt sich, dass die Regeln der EU oft zahnlose Tiger sind, denn selbst gegen die Konzerne mit Sitz - meist in Irland - wie Google, Meta, Apple sorgen die Bußgeldverfahren nur für ein gutes Auskommen renommierter Anwaltskanzleien ...

Mehr dazu bei https://www.telepolis.de/features/EU-Datenschutz-versagt-bei-Clearviews-Gesichtsdatenbank-10373221.html

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[nando161mando]

Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database

https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/

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[kitsune24fox]

In connection with business promotion (haha) I tried to use modern technology... And got a little fiasco. But not to waste the good?:"D That's why I shared it on YouTube. Some kind of experiment. Let's see if something happens next...

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[reneleijen]

AP geeft miljoenenboete voor illegaal scrapen gezichtsfoto's

De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) heeft het Amerikaanse bedrijf Clearview AI ruim dertig miljoen euro boete opgelegd voor het illegaal scrapen van gezichtsfoto’s. Klanten kunnen camerabeelden aanleveren om de identiteit van personen te achterhalen. Het bedrijf beschikt over een database met dertig miljard afbeeldingen van gezichten, inclusief veel foto’s van Nederlanders. Dat bestand is…