Name: A Controversial Facial Recognition Database | February 11, 2020
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My name is Carla Zeus, and your objective explanation of world events starts right now.

We're starting in the Granite State of New Hampshire this Tuesday because this is the day when it's voters help choose the candidates who will appear on the ballot in November's US presidential election.

New Hampshire holds the second contest in the presidential nomination process.

It's a primary, meaning people pick their top candidate with a vote.

The first nomination contest was in Iowa, and it was a series of caucuses meetings where voters grouped up according to their favorite candidates, while incumbent President Donald Trump got more than 97% of the Republican vote over his two challengers.

Results for the 11 Democrats competing there.

Last Monday, on the night of the Iowa caucuses, there were inconsistencies, mistakes and problems with the application and the phone line being used to report results.

Yesterday, the Iowa Democratic Party said Pete Buddha judge, a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, held a 1/10 of 1% lead in the delegate count over US Senator Bernie Sanders.

who's from Vermont, but both of their campaigns asked for a re canvassing a recalculation of some results.

Whatever happens in Iowa, the results of today's primaries in New Hampshire will give the winners mo mentum going into the next contests in the weeks ahead, and you can expect to see some of those who don't win, reassess their campaigns and consider leaving the race.

Which of the following features would you find on a face?

Um, the filter is the indentation or groove between your nose and your upper lip.

I is a controversial startup company that says it's collected more than three billion pictures from the Internet.

If your face has ever appeared on Facebook, instagram, Twitter or YouTube, even if the account was deleted afterward, it's possible.

I still has that picture in its database.

Critics call this an invasion of privacy.

Some law enforcement agencies call it an effective tool in solving or preventing crime.

A photo heaven seen in years found in seconds by the facial recognition at ClearView A I so this'll New York Times investigation woke us all up.

Privacy may be a thing of the past, and that's because of this guy.

Well, quite simply clear view is basically a search engine for faces.

Think about the photos you've posted online or photos that others have posted of you.

His app has scraped billions of images from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google to use in a facial recognition system.

He claims more than 600 law enforcement agencies in the U.

S and Canada are using it, though it's unclear how many have actually paid for us.

So this is a photo of me from CNN dot com.

See pictures of me that are not from that original image.

They say it violates their terms of service.

So this this photograph is from my local newspaper.

This ai ai technology is looking at what it's looking unique features.

So it learns to ignore things a little bit like the beard and focus on the features that stay the same across different age.

Do you understand why people find this creepy?

I can understand people having concerns around privacy.

So the first part to remember it's only publicly available information.

We're not just making technology for its own sake.

The reason and the purpose we found, is to really help law enforcement solve crime.

I was concerned about how clear View had amassed its database of images.

I was concerned about its data privacy on.

I was concerned that it was tracking law enforcement searches.

ClearView clearly claims that it works in these sting operations that we do.

So we know that the person has committed a crime.

We know that they're coming to the undercover location where law enforcement will arrest what we don't know who is this person.

But what we do have is a picture that they've sent to the undercover.

And so the Clearview app was usedto get the name of the individual coming to the undercover location way wanted to find out what does this person have firearms?

That's how that tool was used in that particular case.

It wasn't used to develop the probable cause to arrest that person.

It was used for law enforcement safety purposes.

Are you concerned about taking a tour of this?

Is that out of the hands of law enforcement?

I'm not categorically opposed to the use of facial recognition technology.

A facial recognition tool can be used properly if we understand how the database is created.

Whether or not facial recognition is a very effective tool for criminal investigation, we can think of that question is a little bit beside the plane.

The question is, what do we want police to be able to know about us?

Considering most of us really haven't done anything that warrants our information.

So I'm gonna ask my producer, Risha told to run her face through this.

Oh, that Z that's someone else's instagram so yeah, it's only publicly.

Well, I was public at one point, and then I went private, so you know those.

So if I go public and that's that's my instagram too, and I'm private now, but I was public at one point.

If an image is publicly available, clear views technology is capable of grabbing us.

It doesn't matter if you delete it later or change of privacy settings.

It doesn't even matter if somebody posted it without your knowledge or permission.

My dad doesn't have a Facebook account, but I've put photos.

My dad upon line is your view that by him consenting to get a photo taken, he has inadvertently consented to being in your database.