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DEAD HAND SYSTEM // EFFECTIVELY IRREVERSIBLE

FACIAL RECOGNITION INFRASTRUCTURE

DEPLOYED // IRREVERSIBLE DATA  ·  EFFECTIVELY IRREVERSIBLE  ·  REVERSIBILITY 5%

Billions of faces indexed in databases used by governments and corporations worldwide. Clearview AI alone scraped 30+ billion images. The data cannot be un-collected.

LINKED THREAT VECTORS

This system amplifies or is amplified by the following threat vectors on the tracker:

SURVEILLANCE OVERREACH POWER CONCENTRATION
SOURCES [4]
  1. Kashmir Hill, "The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It," New York Times (Jan 2020) — nytimes.com
  2. BBC News, "Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images" (May 2022) — bbc.com
  3. ACLU v. Clearview AI settlement (May 2022) — aclu.org
  4. NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) ongoing benchmark reports — nist.gov