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Privacy: Clearview AI stole 30 billion photos from Facebook and put them into a digital Police Line up DB

Privacy: Clearview AI stole 30 billion photos from Facebook and put them into a digital Police Line up DB

A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a “perpetual police line-up,” even for people who haven’t done anything wrong. Source: Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’ The photos were stolen without…

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Privacy: Test versions of iRobot’s Roomba vacuums leaked photos and video from inside homes

Privacy: Test versions of iRobot’s Roomba vacuums leaked photos and video from inside homes

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including…

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