"Clearview has taken a flood-the-zone approach to seeking out new clients, providing access not just to organizations, but to individuals within those organizations," Ryan Mac 🙃, @carolineha_ and @_loganmcdonald report in BuzzFeed News nyti.ms/32vpvzd

While this could mean victims are vulnerable to eavesdropping, software updates and other layers of security will likely prevent this attack from having catastrophic results," @HowellONeill reports in MIT Technology Review nyti.ms/2VtpXwc

"Lawmakers last year expressed outrage that aggregators were able to buy user data from wireless carriers and sell 'location-based services to a wide variety of companies' and others, including bounty hunters," David Shepardson reports in @reuters nyti.ms/2PvPTn8

"In 2020, it's safe to assume that any photo uploaded and made public to the internet will be analyzed by facial recognition," Dave Gershgorn- davegershgorn.bsky.social writes in OneZero nyti.ms/2T7Xqe7

"Apple has disabled the iOS developer account of Clearview AI," Ryan Mac 🙃, @carolineha_ and @_loganmcdonald report in BuzzFeed News nyti.ms/2TpGbnt

"I am in that database, and you probably are too," writes Anna Merlan in Motherboard @Vice nyti.ms/3aeRKER

"As threats to privacy proliferate, Washington legislators have a historic opportunity to enact a privacy law that will lead the way for other states," Jennifer Lee, Susan Grant and Ed Mierzwinski, #ProtectConsumers #DefendCFPB!! write in The Seattle Times nyti.ms/3afyJlQ

"Calling for the ethical development of algorithms, known as 'algor-ethics', Francis warned about the dangers of AI being used to extract data for commercial or political ends," Philip Pullella and Jeffrey Dastin report in @reuters nyti.ms/2vpUZKW

"The bill would require companies to obtain permission from New Jersey consumers before they can collect and sell personal data to third parties," Joseph De Avila reports in The Wall Street Journal nyti.ms/2wlBLGm

From the The New York Times newsroom: "It also appears to share information with the police, setting a template for new forms of automated social control that could persist long after the epidemic subsides," Paul Mozur 孟建國, Raymond Zhong and Aaron Krolik report nyti.ms/38jZ1Sh

"Clearview...has quietly been working on a surveillance camera with facial recognition capabilities," @carolineha_, Ryan Mac 🙃 and @_loganmcdonald report in BuzzFeed News nyti.ms/2VDfD55

"A sudden epidemic—when countries struggle to manage not just the outbreak but its social, economic and political fallout—is especially tempting for interference," Schneier Blog and @Nonstopdoc write in Foreign Policy nyti.ms/2VIAUdw

"At least two US senators intend to probe Clearview AI, the secretive facial recognition startup that’s compiled a database of billions of photos," Ryan Mac 🙃, @carolineha_ and @_loganmcdonald report in BuzzFeed News nyti.ms/3apCV2g

"For almost a year, the residents of this city of 3 million have lived under the surveillance of live facial recognition, with some individuals put on a watchlist even for minor crimes like theft," Dave Gershgorn- davegershgorn.bsky.social writes in OneZero nyti.ms/3cshAah

"As with other algorithmic crime systems, there is little public oversight or information about how, exactly, the system determines what is worth alerting cops to," Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg and Joseph Cox write in @Motherboard nyti.ms/32Ozb85