Face Off: Clearview AI v The World

10/29/24 • 36 min

In 2017 a little-known Australian technologist develops a revolutionary form of facial recognition technology.
Clearview AI is being used by law enforcement agencies to hunt down criminals. But is there a catch?
A series of legal disputes around the world are among the most stark and alarming of our time.

Show Notes
Guest: Professor Jeannie Paterson, University of Melbourne (Co-Director, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics)
Update: Since recording, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released this Statement on Clearview AI (21 August 2024).
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill (The New York Times, 18 January 2020)
Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy: Statement by Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (3 November 2021)
ACLU v. Clearview AI case summary (American Civil Liberties Union, 11 May 2022)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit (AP News, 22 June 2024)

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USA v David Hicks: Dan Mori

It's 2003. An Australian man is captured by US forces in Afghanistan and imprisoned at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on terrorism charges.
The prisoner's defence lawyer is a United States Marine Corps lawyer named Dan Mori.
He's about to be thrust onto the world stage in a fight against his own country's military and political establishment.
(Update: The US government has revoked a plea deal with the men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi.)
Show Notes
Guest: Dan Mori, Legal Consultant, Shine Lawyers; LtCol, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)

Case: David M. Hicks v United States of America, CMCR 13-004 (2015) (PDF)Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006) (PDF) Sworn charges: Providing Material Support for Terrorism; and Attempted Murder in Violation of the Law of War" , Military Commissions: David M. Hicks. US Department of Defense (1 March 2007) (PDF)

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Transcript

[Archival] Hoan Ton-That: My name's Hoan Ton-That, I'm the co founder and CEO of Clearview AI. Clearview AI is a facial recognition search engine. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with electronics and computers. I'd be reading a lot of stuff on AI, especially around image recognition. The issues with the previous stuff, you'd have to get a perfectly aligned face. It wasn't accurate across all these different demographics. I'm a person of mixed race. Accuracy on this kind of technology is impor