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For those of us that aren’t familiar, what exactly is Clearview.ai?

• jedixit 7y ago
  It builds a detailed profile of you based on your public data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207
• stonogo 7y ago
  A startup: Face classification and person tracking via photo scraping social media, as a service, offered to law enforcement agencies, and they keep getting hacked.
  • cgb223 7y ago
    If they keep scraping does that mean I have to keep opting out?
    • alteria 7y ago
      Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you opt-out, they agree to stop adding to stuff they can identify as yours. That doesn't stop another company from doing the same. And that's the problem. There are so many companies that we don't know about.