Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI
So Clearview has a database of billions of faces scraped from the internet, and sells subscriptions to match photos on that data. I don't think we can put this capability back in the box. There is no moat around it.<p>Keyhole once had a similar business model for satellite data. Then Google bought them and offered it to everyone for free, making a fortune. I hope that Clearview's path goes the same way. If this is available to law enforcement and anyone else who can afford it, better for it to be available to everyone.<p>If big brother can have it, little brother should too. There is no serious prospect of withholding it from big brother. I think I'd rather have privacy from both, but that doesn't seem to be an option.