I am temporarily pausing and making sure I am within legal limits. If not, I will completely remove face recognition and try other routes to solve the problem.
doesn't seem to be doing that. It's essentially a glorified google reverse image where the input is a face, then it probably uses the metadata gleaned from that search to look up further info for that person. Will it be accurate? we will have to see
How much have you investigated the legality of this? In the EU biometric data is 'special category data' under the GDPR [0] and can only be processed in very limited circumstances unless you have the consent of the data subject [1]
Not only the EU, but you will have to check with each of the 50 US states as they all have a patchwork of laws. Illinois was one of the first, but I don't know much about it; I thought I read it was pretty extensive to the point some facial recognition companies specifically exclude it. Texas also has its own version as well, that I know of; again don't know details.
The GDPR works on the personally-identifiable vs anonymous distinction. Private vs public doesn't really factor into it, or at least only becomes relevant in the nuances.
Personally identifiable data is just a mouthful, which is why people like to misleadingly shorten it to private data.
This is such a cool angle for lead gen. Just the other day, I saw some kids using those Ray-Ban/Meta glasses through Instagram Live feeds to grab publicly available data from people almost in real time. It blew my mind.
Sure, this kind of tech will probably go through a lot of scrutiny and for good reason, but whether it’s a consumer product or a custom internal tool, it’s happening.
In the FAQ you could explain how its not going to be a useful tool for stalkers because that's where my mind goes, maybe I watch too many DateLines.
Exactly - this won't be useful for stalkers. We don't crawl or index social media pictures.
Will add FAQ section.
I am temporarily pausing and making sure I am within legal limits. If not, I will completely remove face recognition and try other routes to solve the problem.
Vignesh
So you're helping people profile others based on how they look? Aren't we trying to move away from that?
[0] https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/organisations/know-your-obl...
[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/
I will contact my lawyer and double check this.
Clearview vs Introthem:
- Clearview does photo-to-photo matching. We don't do that, and I don't think I will ever build that.
- You have to provide the name, then we build the faces collection for analyzing at search time and delete it.
- We don't retain any face collection once the search is done.
I still don't know if I am breaking any laws, but here is how Introthem works.
Personally identifiable data is just a mouthful, which is why people like to misleadingly shorten it to private data.
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Dark pattern, lack of testing, or incompetence? Please do better if you're contributing to the Orwellian surveillance capitalist state
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Fixed!
Sure, this kind of tech will probably go through a lot of scrutiny and for good reason, but whether it’s a consumer product or a custom internal tool, it’s happening.
Excited to see where this goes.