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Oh my god, that's insane! This is the clearest example I've seen of why we need better privacy regulations.

There is nothing stopping a company from just spinning up and doing this to compete with PimEyes, and then you'd have to opt-out of that one too.

Absolutely wild!

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Or using all those Opt Out pictures as part of new training data (they will never admit to it and hide behind vague “proprietary training sets” as origins) spinning off a “new company” using the improved facial recognition and no one is opted out of New Company™

> Training datasets are highly guarded secrets in the face recognition industry. Companies are reluctant to disclose their data sources out of fear it could cause legal issues. For example, in 2021 an NBC investigation11 revealed that Everalbum, Inc. (now Paravision AI) was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for using millions of users’ faces without consent to build face recognition technologies. The FTC forced Everalbum to delete all biometric data and any face recognition model trained using it.12 Coincidentally, Everalbum’s AI group was listed as a user of the MegaFace dataset of non-consensual Flickr images. Ever AI (now Paravision) also participated in the NIST Visa-Border that uses 1.6M apparently non-consensual face images from border crossings in U.S. It seems that no matter where your selfies are appearing these days, companies and government agencies are eager to use it as biometric data. https://adam.harvey.studio/todays-selfie/

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