NYT: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

A chart from marketing materials that Clearview provided to law enforcement.

Here is a link to the Times story we discussed Tuesday about Clearview AI and its alarming facial recognition software, now owned by hundreds of police departments nationwide. Twitter told the company yesterday it must stop “scraping” photos from its platform or face possible legal action.

When we think about our own privacy, and how much of it we’ve already given away, the issues raised in this in-depth report will be incredibly illuminating to you. They were to me.

As I heard a colleague say yesterday: “If you are not paying for something, you are what’s being sold.”