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    App that spells ‘end of privacy’

    Oct 28, 2023 3 minutes
    Frightening
    wendy.jdc@inl.co.za

    ANONYMITY no longer exists.

    A US company has secretly amassed 30 billion images of people across the world without their knowledge and uploads 75 million new photographs to its database daily.

    Clearview AI has developed an app capable of identifying almost anyone whose photo and name have appeared on the internet, even when they are wearing a hat, glasses or a mask.

    Journalist Kashmir Hill, who details the chilling information in her book Your Face Belongs To Us, says Clearview AI has more images than the number of people on Earth

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