{"id":71834,"date":"2020-08-17T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71834"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:34:25","slug":"facial-recognition-start-up-mounts-a-first-amendment-defense-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/08\/17\/facial-recognition-start-up-mounts-a-first-amendment-defense-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense [Hill]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/11\/technology\/clearview-floyd-abrams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from nytimes.com by Kashmir Hill<br \/>\n<em>Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Litigation against the start-up \u201chas the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship between privacy claims and First Amendment defenses in the 21st century,\u201d Mr. Abrams said in a phone interview. He said the underlying legal questions could one day reach the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Clearview AI has scraped billions of photos from the internet, including from platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram, and sells access to the resulting database to law enforcement agencies. When an officer uploads a photo or a video image containing a person\u2019s face, the app tries to match the likeness and provides other photos of that person that can be found online.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many, if not all of us, are now required to be lifelong learners in order to stay marketable. I was struck by that when I read the following excerpt from the above article:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cI\u2019m learning the language,\u201d Mr. Abrams said. \u201cI\u2019ve never used the words \u2018facial biometric algorithms\u2019 until this phone call.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense &#8212; from nytimes.com by Kashmir Hill Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws. Excerpts: Litigation against the start-up \u201chas the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,356,816,545,825,285,15,216,480,310,454,321,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-facebook","category-heutagogy","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-lifelong-learning","category-microsoft","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71835,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71834\/revisions\/71835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}