It is interesting to think that we live in a world where technology that has the ability to recognize your face exists, and what is perhaps even stranger is the fact that your face can now be used for the profit of corporations.
Clearview AI, a facial recognition company has been in a heated battle with Twitter over its right to mine and use photos that are posted to the social media platform. Twitter along with Google, have filed cease and desist orders against the company to stop mining user's data.
A cease and desist order is essentially a legal document that can be filed to tell a person or company to stop engaging in a specific act.
Clearview AI intends to fight this, as they say that they are protected by the first amendment and will continue to mine this data. They claim that the users publicly posted these images, and now it has the right to collect them. This also brings up the concern that some social media users post photos privately, make their entire account private, or set their accounts to only show photos to friends and family. These users are still most likely not safe from companies like this.
Clearview has collected three billion photos and, more concerningly, licensed them to law enforcement agencies, which can use them to track suspected criminals.
Source:
https://mashable.com/article/clearview-ai-ceo-first-amendment-right-facial-recognition-data-scraping/
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