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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 2 years ago

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

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The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

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The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)
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A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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    Yes it’s still in use and very bad. Here is the most important snippet:

    “It’s creepy what they’re doing, but there will be many more of these companies. There is no monopoly on math,” said Al Gidari, a privacy professor at Stanford Law School. “Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we’re all screwed.”

    Also here is an arguably better article: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/my-chilling-run-in-with-a-secretive-facial-recognition-app/ar-AA1hlrxc

    The short answer is bad in US less bad in countries that banned its use but can’t put genie back in the bottle even there. The concept is not crazy.

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