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'Chilling': Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas:
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that scrapes public images from social media to aid law enforcement probes, has subpoenaed internal documents from some of the groups that first exposed its activities.
The firm served subpoenas in August to civil society coalition Open The Government, its policy analyst Freddy Martinez and the police accountability nonprofit that he’d previously founded, Lucy Parsons Labs — demanding any correspondence they’d had with journalists about Clearview and its leaders, as well as information they’d uncovered about the company and its founders in public records requests, over the last four years.
The subpoenas, obtained by POLITICO, could draw the groups into lengthy court battles and, they argue, dissuade others from taking on Clearview or other companies working on potentially problematic technologies.
David Brody, counsel and senior fellow for privacy and technology at the nonprofit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the move could be seen as an attempt to deter the advocacy groups, and journalists, from future investigations.
[...] Authorities have been using Clearview’s software for several years to try to match images in government databases and surveillance footage with billions of personal photos posted to the internet. Privacy, human rights and civil liberties advocates have long raised alarm about facial recognition technology as both intrusive and biased. It has been shown to disproportionately misidentify women and people of color.
Clearview's attorney Andrew J. Lichtman said in a statement that “Clearview AI is vigorously defending itself against claims in multi-district litigation and therefore has served subpoenas to appropriate parties relating to its defense.”
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday September 28 2021, @07:16PM (6 children)
Attention January 6 rioters: maybe THIS is the kind of thing you should get riled up about. Especially when you toss around words like 'tyranny' and 'traitors'. (referring to people in government who were just doing their jobs, including Republicans who were doing their jobs)
Much better than getting riled up about the outcome of a peaceful election.
This type of thing is what we should be afraid of.
It's not which party is in control. It is how did we even get here? How was this allowed to happen so quietly?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @07:24PM (5 children)
There's one thing you gotta understand about the *January 6 rioters*, all they want is to chase all the niggers, spiks, and chinks out, or least keep them behind a fence, out of sight, until they need to have their butts wiped.
I don't know why we don't have the balls to chase the *January 6 rioters* out, or at least off the damn plane
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Tuesday September 28 2021, @07:35PM (2 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)
No, they were already racist before they got there.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Tuesday September 28 2021, @08:23PM
Maybe so maybe no but in this context it's about as appropriate as criticizing them for not wanting a second season of Firefly. It might apply but isn't relevant to "Janury 6th Rioters".
You have PLENTY to criticize them for, like the entire reason they were there, no need to drag in unrelated shit.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @09:54PM (1 child)
January 6th insurrectionists! What a bunch of losers.
If we're going by the common english language definition and not weird US law
They were all T R A I T O R S.
You get to be called a patriot when you actually have evidence for the crimes you are going all treasonous violent insurrection over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @10:08PM
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/no-seditious-conspiracy-charges-emerge-us-capitol-riots-cases-2021-06-03/ [reuters.com]