Are Your Social Media Photos Ending Up In a Law Enforcement Database?

Vision Slightly Blurred

Vision Slightly Blurred
Are Your Social Media Photos Ending Up In a Law Enforcement Database?
Feb 18, 2020 Episode 46
PhotoShelter

The New York Times investigative reporter Kashmir Hill uncovered some unsettling details about Clearview AI – a facial recognition start-up that scrapes publicly available photos from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo and makes the data searchable by law enforcement – even if you're not suspect or convicted of committing a crime.

Facial recognition is an incredibly useful consumer tool for organization burgeoning albums, but the privacy implications are enormous when third parties start to aggregate images and make the data commercially available.

In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen revisit the issue of facial recognition (first covered in the inaugural episode of Vision Slightly Blurred last year), and see how far the technology and ethical implications have come in less than 12 months.