The controversial company, already notorious for amassing over 50 billion facial images scraped from social platforms, signed a contract in mid-2019 with Investigative Consultant, Inc. to acquire roughly 690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos from across all 50 U.S. states.
“The contract shows that Clearview was trying to get social security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and other personal information along with the mugshots,” said Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC.
If you’ve been inside a Walmart or target or many other major retailers in the last 5 years, you’re already in the database.
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“You’re already in the system, whether it is a system that involves a conviction, an arrest or being a member of the community on social media,” said local defense attorney “You’re part of that system, you’re part of that database, for better or for worse. You’re there.”
“The lack of laws and legislation is a bit troubling because we seem to need to catch up to a technology that’s way ahead of us,”
System startered in 2021
Walmart alone is a scary good at this. They have dedicated teams towards facial and item theft recognition. They won’t even report your theft until it reaches grand larceny they will simply tally the theft. Because there is no point in arresting a 20 dollar theft or having a case to prosecute with teams of lawyers.
It should be a crime to gather that much data as a private entity
The whole “building a profile to sue people” would bother me a lot less if they weren’t stealing from their own workers.