The field of facial knowledge is developing without citizens knowing it too much, and surely thanks to your visas and my visas. Yes -- that's not possible, and it can't happen, but it's happening. Thanks to the last sanction received by the New York company Clearview AI, we have updated the information we had about this reality, with a fine of EUR 20 million for information technology by the independent French structure Cnil which looks at informatics from the liberties field. In fact, it is not allowed to capture photos caused on the Internet, completing a 20,000 million sided database. Steal photos from websites and social networks. The vast majority do not know that it is in that database, but you can know if yours is in it by sending a request to Clearview AI, which has an obligation to respond and which, although it takes time, will respond to you.

The company commercializes access to the image base, opening the way to locating people through photographs to police, institutions and private companies. On the Nextinpact website you can read that the company has 3,100 customers: FBI, the Department of Internal Defense EE.UU, the capitalist company Walmart, the bank Bank of America, the Macy’s chain of shopping malls, as well as Police and Border Agents from other locations. Two years ago BuzzFeed had been present in 27 locations, according to the study that led to the media.

Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe should ensure the consent or request of citizens, or the use of data without intimidating rights and personal interests. The user, in this case Clearview AI, must resort to a legitimate interest without going beyond the rights and interests of the citizens, making it clear that there is no other less intrusive way to achieve the objective.

Clearview AI was convicted in October for not meeting these requirements, after several citizens came to Cnil since May 2020. Hearing about the company, some inquired for curiosity about their identity and received several photographs. The NGO Privacy International also visited Cnil in May last year with the aim of ensuring respect for private life.

Initially, Cnil asked him to end these burglaries and remove the photos from the database, but Clearview AI did not give him any succession. Thus, it has a fine and until 20 December to erase the data of all French citizens, failing which, a daily penalty of EUR 100,000. Clearview AI is the toughest punishment ever seen on the Cnil side.

But it does the same to businessman Hoan Ton-That: “A public photo on the Internet does not tell us if he is a French person, so it is impossible to erase the data of the French citizens”. It uses the same argument for other complaints. Because France is not the only one to punish Clearview AI: the United Kingdom, with a fine of EUR 8.85 million, Italy, with EUR 20 million, Sweden, with EUR 250,000, Canada, Austria, etc., is multi-political for the same reason. Clearview AI is dedicated to stealing our private lives in all illegality and in most cases behind the fines.

Alexandre Lazarègue, a reading lawyer at Le Monde the day after Cnil’s conviction, sees “Lanjerra” in the current legal framework, precisely because the General European Data Protection Regulation does not prohibit “profiling” – the use of personal data to predict or analyze the attitude of a citizen, for example, the most obvious thing is the monitoring of our consumes… Among the reasons for this is What is more, Europe regrets that it defines data as “simple information”, which means ending “legal uncertainty”. If it were a solution: if personal data had been considered as “goods”, they could hinder unauthorized use.

Base at right end

The entrepreneur is 33 years old, Hoan Ton-That. At 21 he founded his first company in the computer sector to hack emails. He later specialized in facial knowledge. It is at the right end and it is well known that it is committed to spreading this approach. He bet on Donald Trump’s candidacy and was also at Trump’s victory party.

Mike Cernovich is a male and conspiracionist and Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer a neo-Nazi hacker among his friends, according to the report “Les liaisons dangereuses de Clearview avec l’extrême droite” from the Korii medium. The help of this part was also available at the time of creating Clearview AI. These include white Tyler Bass supremazist, the famous fascist Marko Jukic and right-wing extremist activist Charles C. Johnson. It also had conservative deputies and procurators. Given the difficulty of adhering to all names, it can be rounded up that everyone met on the WeSearchr platform created by Johnson, a crowdfunding space to subsidize far-right projects that closed 2015.

Hoan Ton-That himself would be fond of the neofaxist movement called NRx or Dark Lights, according to Korii. According to Huffington Post, “NRx is the set of racist and misogynist right-wing geek that have influenced the libertarian circles of Silicon Valley for over a decade. [...] Its members praised Peter Thiel, microdosed the LSD and beautified totalitarian ideas with a pseudo-intellectual character that gives them the moral excuse of trampling over democracy." After completion of the report, it is worth spending time sending the request for data and the cancellation mandate to Clearview AI...