, "which is why we banned their founder from our services and sent them a legal demand to stop accessing any data, photos, or videos from our services."For his part, Ton-That says that everything Clearview does is perfectly fine. Helpful, even!
"Clearview AI's database of publicly available images is lawfully collected, just like any other search engine like Google," the CEO told. "Clearview AI's database is used for after-the-crime investigations by law enforcement, and is not available to the general public." "Every photo in the dataset," he continued, "is a potential clue that could save a life, provide justice to an innocent victim, prevent a wrongful identification, or exonerate an innocent person."But as is to be expected, some experts see this particular cornerstone of the ever-growing — and largely unregulated — police surveillance state in a very different light.
"Clearview is a total affront to peoples' rights, full stop, and police should not be able to use this tool," Caitlin Seeley George, the director of campaigns and operations for the nonprofit digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, told"Without laws stopping them," George added, "police often use Clearview without their department's knowledge or consent, so Clearview boasting about how many searches is the only form of 'transparency' we get...
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