Secretly created face database with three billion photos uncovered

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According to a research of the New York Times the small startup Clearview AI is said to have built up the probably largest photo database for face recognition worldwide so far. The company has used around three billion images of people from various Internet sources, including publicly accessible images from Facebook, YouTube and Venmo as well as millions of smaller websites. Although the scraping of user images is a technically relatively simple process on most websites, enabling the creation of large databases, it usually violates the terms of use.
According to a company source, facial recognition was offered as a service to 600 government agencies last year. One possible use in the USA, for example, is identity verification at entry, which is currently already working with facial recognition and uses images taken specifically for this purpose. The...

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