Kashmir Hill has been following facial recognition technology for years. A New York Times journalist, she wrote the book Your Face Belongs to Us chronicling the rise of Clearview AI, the poster-boy company for nefarious facial recognition technology (FRT).The distilled notes of the Clearview story go like this: Founded in 2017, funded in part by shadowy conservative businessman Peter Thiel, Clearview scraped billions of images from the web and social platforms to create the ultimate face-detection tool. It paired cutting-edge AI computer vision with a deep (but surreptitious) indexing of every possible image of a human being ever posted to…

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