I got my file from Clearview AI
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I got my file from Clearview AI
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Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#2Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#3Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
This guy's name is Tom Smith. Go ahead and pop that into Google and let me know how that turns out.
His name is about as generic as you could imagine for a white person. But they returned a bunch of images of HIM, and one Alexey Something-or-other, which could be his troll account.
Edit: the Alexey part is a joke, I'm sorry but I thought it was funny.
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#4Ideally we live in a society where not being anonymous is not such a big risk.
But governments change, the data is still around to be abused.
This is what disturbs me. Is how data can be abused in the future.
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#5This website does some crazy redirect loop between medium at the sub domain when opened without JS. How is that even possible?
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#6Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
This guy's name is Tom Smith. Go ahead and pop that into Google and let me know how that turns out. His name is about as generic as you could imagine for a white person. But they returned a bunch of images of HIM, and one Alexey Something-or-other, which could be his troll account. Edit: the Alexey part is a joke, I'm sorry but I thought it was funny.
TIL generic names (in your geographic region) are good ways to promote privacy.
I always wondered how the Chinese authorities figured that out considering the massive name reuse in China. I can’t watch a Chinese movie or TV show without at least one character sharing the surname (the first part in China) of a Chinese person I know.
Smith would be our classic version in the west.
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#7This website does some crazy redirect loop between medium at the sub domain when opened without JS. How is that even possible?
Server side redirect after tracking cookies aren't set by JS. Advertising.com blogs (AOL?) do the same thing.
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#8This website does some crazy redirect loop between medium at the sub domain when opened without JS. How is that even possible?
It didn't for me. (It did, however, make the content of the page load roughly two orders of magnitude faster.)
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#9I used to think some of my peers were being overly cautious by purposely trying to obfuscate their online profile. Back in the day, I couldn’t care less about putting in effort to try to protect my online privacy. I have slowly but surely come to see the light. Now it’s at the forefront of my mind at all times.
Learning about this company (and I imagine other unknown entities are doing the same) has encouraged me to get more aggressive.
I think I will start to try some shenanigans I learned from a friend. I plan on replacing my online profile pics to a random grab from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/. Might not make much of a difference for the old stuff, maybe I can successfully request a data deletion as the article suggests. At least it will introduce a little bit of noise to the AI overloads :)
Re: I got my file from Clearview AI
#10The article is missing a link to the Clearview forms to request a copy of the data or request deletion: https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests