![]() ![]() While it does have the capacity to combine both techniques, ethical safeguards kept it from developing a Clearview-like tool. Google also offers image search and facial recognition, but keeps both has separate. This is a technique that even Google, the “pioneer of surveillance capitalism” according to Shoshana Zuboff’s seminal work “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” (p. After taking a biometric scan (a “faceprint”) of a person, it combs through these databases to match it with all faces with identical features. ![]() The small New York-based company admits having built a database of more than two billion images scraped from the internet, mostly from Social Media sites, without permission or notice. In January, a New York Times article revealed that 600 US police agencies use a tool by a previously unknown company, Clearview AI, to instantly identify almost anybody based on their face. Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the NGO Mijente, talked with us about why this puts the 11 million undocumented people in the United States at an even higher risk for deportation. Among its clients: authoritarian states and US immigration enforcement. A small US company is selling an app that might end our ability to walk down the street anonymously. ![]()
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