Facebook and Google are already able to recognize your face really easily. Here's how to stop them to take one step toward preventing big tech from easily recognizing who you are in a picture.
A New York Times report over the weekend discussed a company named Clearview AI that can easily recognize people's faces when someone uploads a picture. It scrapes this data from the internet and sites people commonly use, like Facebook and YouTube, according to the report.
You can stop Facebook and Google from recognizing your face in their systems, which is one step toward regaining your privacy. Still, it probably won't entirely stop companies like Clearview AI from recognizing you, since they're not using the systems developed by Google or Facebook. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg testified about Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency Libra, how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign and how it handles its users’ data and privacy.frightening story about a small company named Clearview AI that can identify the person in a picture someone uploads to its service. The New York Times said Clearview AI has more than 3 billion images "scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites," and that more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using it. The report raises some really valid concerns about our privacy: if a picture of you exists somewhere online, and you participate in a protest or a rally, then it's plausible law enforcement could upload a picture of you at the rally, run it through the Clearview system, and easily find out who you are. Pictures of most of us are all over the web. We use profile photos in public places like Twiter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Venmo. And companies have gotten really good at identifying you. All you need to do is look at the facial recognition systems already in place on Facebook and Google Photos. They can easily identify you and your friends in your pictures. You can turn off facial recognition, but it might not stop companies like Clearview from identifying you. After all, if you search your name in Google you might find several pictures of yourself that are online: maybe something as simple as a profile picture from a sports team you were on in college, or just the picture you've used on various social networks. Those pictures, it seems, are part of what Clearview uses to identify people. Still, stopping Facebook and Google's ability to recognize your face is at least a step toward taking back your privacy. I'll show you how to see if they're already set to recognize you, and if so, how to turn it off.
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