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Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got "unauthorized access" to its list of customers:
[...] the startup Clearview AI disclosed to its customers that an intruder "gained unauthorized access" to its list of customers, to the number of user accounts those customers had set up, and to the number of searches its customers have conducted. The notification said the company's servers were not breached and that there was "no compromise of Clearview's systems or network." The company also said it fixed the vulnerability and that the intruder did not obtain any law-enforcement agencies' search histories.
[...] The firm drew national attention when The New York Times ran a front-page story about its work with law-enforcement agencies. The Times reported that the company scraped 3 billion images from the internet, including from Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. That process violated Facebook's terms of service, according to the paper. It also created a resource that drew the attention of hundreds of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, according to that report. In a follow-up story, the Times reported that law-enforcement officials have used the tools to identify children who are victims of sexual abuse. One anonymous Canadian law-enforcement official told the paper that Clearview was "the biggest breakthrough in the last decade" for investigations of those crimes.
The notification did not describe the breach as a hack. David Forscey, the managing director of the no-profit Aspen Cybersecurity Group, said the breach is concerning.
Previously on SN:
Canadian Privacy Commissioners to Investigate "Creepy" Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI
Clearview AI Hit with Cease-And-Desist from Google, Facebook Over Facial Recognition Collection
Clearview App Lets Strangers Find Your Name, Info with Snap of a Photo, Report Says
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @02:30AM (1 child)
Don't worry, they're totally not out to get you. Contrary to all the incredulous comments every time your subs appear.
I'll give this place one credit, they're more community minded than the KKK.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:40AM
Actually, the list of usual suspects is quite impressive!
Not libertarian privacy heros these are! Aid to Guliani, only because he cannot spell "aide", and does not, so far as anyone knows, have AIDS to Guliani. Why is the Alt-right always involved in criminal activities? Almost as bad as that prick "Projection Veritass", who just took down yet another honest journalist. But, the journalist was working for the Disney Dominionist Channelers, ABC, so perhaps it was a contracted job.
Are we done here, yet? Trump has Corona virus. You heard it here first.