On privacy
- Facebook deletes a billion faceprints
Meta is shutting down Facebook's face recognition system and deleting more than a billion face templates. An industry chapter closing, from someone who lived in it.
2 min reads likes comments - Clearview scraped three billion faces. This is why we built on-device
The New York Times revealed a startup that matches any photo against billions of faces scraped from social media, and sells it to police. The worst version of my industry is now public.
2 min reads likes comments - ZAO put your face in a movie in eight seconds
A Chinese face-swap app went viral over the weekend and hit a privacy wall within days. China just ran the consumer deepfake experiment at scale.
2 min reads likes comments - Datasets have a consent debt
Microsoft quietly took down MS-Celeb-1M, ten million photos of a hundred thousand people. A lot of the face recognition industry was built on data nobody agreed to give.
2 min reads likes comments - San Francisco banned face recognition. Customers asked if we're next
The ban covers city agencies, not private companies like ours. It still changed a lot of sales conversations this week. Where I think the line should be.
2 min reads likes comments - Starting a face recognition company, with eyes open
I've co-founded a company that does face recognition on device. Why on device, why conference check-in first, and the lines we won't cross.
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