Facial recognition software firm Clearview AI, which has been criticized for scraping together a database of as many as 3 billion online images, has been hit with a data breach.
student newspaper described the plan as"a major breach of students’ privacy and make students feel unsafe on a campus they are supposed to call home."that the startup had built a database of more than 3 billion images gathered from social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, as well as payment site Venmo and countless other online sites.
Clearview was founded by Australian technologist Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, an aide to then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Times reported, and counts Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel among its investors.demanding the company stop using its platforms for gathering imagery. “YouTube’s Terms of Service explicitly forbid collecting data that can be used to identify a person,” YouTube spokesman Alex Joseph said in a statement. “Clearview has publicly admitted to doing exactly that, and in response we sent them a cease and desist letter.”
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