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one of those situations where I'm supposed to be supportive of the use of facial recognition No, it's not. This is the Hoan Ton-That supposedly protecting u
by uniqueid 6y ago
one of those situations where I'm supposed to be
supportive of the use of facial recognition
No, it's not. This is the Hoan Ton-That supposedly protecting us from the crazies...
"Founder Hoan Ton-That’s has links to the far-right movement that move right past suspicious into obvious, according to HuffPo. He reportedly attended a 2016 dinner with white supremacist Richard Spencer and organised by alt-right financier Jeff Giesea, an associate of Palantir founder and Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel. (Thiel secretly bankrolled a lawsuit that bankrupted Gizmodo’s former parent company, Gawker Media.) Ton-That was also a member of a Slack channel run by professional troll Chuck Johnson for his now-defunct WeSearchr, a crowdfunding platform primarily used by white supremacists; that channel included people like the webmaster of neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, Andrew Auernheimer, and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich"
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/04/creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-sure-has-a-lot-of-ties-to-the-far-right/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/04/creepy-face-recognition-f...