Against the backdrop of the recent tragic event associated with the mass murder of students in a US school, Clearview AI's proposal to introduce their facial recognition development in all educational institutions is now considered a very effective measure to prevent such crimes. This topic is again raised on the pages of the portal information security news due to the fact that:
- Such systems have already been implemented in schools.
- Were banned in some schools and even entire states.
The reason for the cancellation of the use of the facial identification program was the opinion that such a measure violates the principle of inviolability of information about the private lives of students and teachers.
The opinion of opponents of the use of the face recognition system
Indeed, according to Clearview AI itself, its database already contains photos belonging to more than 20 billion users. Moreover, such placement is carried out without the knowledge of most of them. Despite the large number of crimes solved with the help of this program, it has a large number of opponents of its widespread use. The thing is that the principle of its work is as follows:
- Upload a photo received from a security camera or access to the software database.
- Identity verification against photos posted on online social networks.
After the analysis, the program provides all the photos found on the Internet and indicates the name of the social networks on which they are posted. It is through social networks that it is possible to determine not only the name, age or location of the user at the moment, but also information of a personal or even intimate nature.
Currently, access to such a check using the Clearview AI program can only be obtained after special registration. It is not available to ordinary users. The option is used only by police and law enforcement agencies. In their opinion, the system works more efficiently than they have their own databases.
