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Is this the end of privacy?

AI APP may have your picture

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 a powerful app capable of identifying almost anyone whose photo and name has 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

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