Interesting article about a company that has built a data warehouse of photos to identify anyone who has been posted their photos publicly to the Internet. It can then identify almost anyone, even by photos of people decades ago. The largest user has been police departments in identifying criminals. The usability of this as legal evidence in court as been questions, and also questions of privacy issues have been raised.
20200211/https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/10/tech/clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that/index.html
My response? I think it’s great that they’re continuing to pursue the technology in spite of obstacles. We really do need to move forward to a future where the common person is just as recognizable as the most ambitious, we just need to find a good area of practice.
This is an interesting article about how every word ever spoken could easily be stored using today’s digital storage media, without compression. In the past, significant compression would have been required to attain that number.
20200211/https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/word-storage