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Stephen Downes

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You may recall that Clearview AI is the company that has been scraping websites in order to obtain a gigantic collection of portraits which it is using to train facial recognition software. So this is an object lesson teaching us (again) that such data is never secure. While hacking is obviously illegal, though, I can impagine the hackers justifying themselves by saying they were just scraping Clearview's database.

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