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Thursday, 21 September 2023

It Should Be No Surprise

That the company that has made
the quantum ethical leap backward
of with no consent from any person
or from any online organisation
has recorded record numbers of images
of everyone who has put their face online
would seek to be more anonymous
in it's pursuit of profitable business 
than anyone could dare imagine.

Only slightly less surprising
is that a journalist has used
good shoe leather pursuing the company,
and written a book about them.
In it she has exposed both their secrecy
and the ethical issues they avoided,
whilst more famous companies,
Facebook and Google did not stop
their pages to be 'scrapped' or harvested
for the faces therein, whilst being squeamish
about being offcicially credited with the work,

The bottom line? 

1-I will bet that in their greed Clearview
won't delete the dead from their data bank
so soon it will be less saleable and more inefficient to use.

2-if you are going to be known for anything
then always think before you act,
then think some more, particularly where
you might be 'owned', identified, by your actions.
  

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