A new tech company, Clearview AI, is using billions of the photos
you and I have posted on Facebook to build the world’s most
powerful facial recognition tool.
Unless we act to stop it, anyone could download this app, take a
picture of you and within seconds know your name, where you
live and where your kids go to school.
But Facebook can stop this nightmare technology before it takes
over. And pressure is mounting -- Twitter, Google, Youtube and
LinkedIn have already told Clearview to stop scraping photos or face
legal action, and Apple has blocked the app. If
thousands of us call on Facebook to join them now, we can stop this
dystopian future before it starts.
Tell
Facebook to stop letting Clearview steal our pictures!
Clearview’s investors have gone on record saying they want to
sell this app to the general public as soon as possible. It’s
already being used by the FBI, Homeland Security and hundreds of
other law enforcement agencies. While sometimes facial recognition
can help solve crimes, the possibilities for abuse are
endless.
But this technology can’t work without a huge database of
photos. Let’s get Facebook to act now and stop Clearview
scraping our photos before it’s too late.
Facebook,
act now to stop Clearview scraping our personal images.
Together SumOfUs members have taken on tech companies and
won - from helping to force Google to shelve Dragonfly, its
sinister surveillance search engine, through to forcing Facebook to
ban white supremacist content.
Now let’s stop this out-of-control surveillance
machine before it’s too late.
