*[Enwl-eng] If you post photos on Facebook, read this now

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                        Tell Facebook to stop our family photos being used 
to build the world's most powerful facial recognition tool.



                         Sign the petition


            A new tech company, Clearview AI, is using billions of the 
photos you and I have posted on Facebook to build the world’s most powerful 
facial recognition tool.

            Unless we act to stop it, anyone could download this app, take a 
picture of you and within seconds know your name, where you live and where 
your kids go to school.

            But Facebook can stop this nightmare technology before it takes 
over. And pressure is mounting -- Twitter, Google, Youtube and LinkedIn have 
already told Clearview to stop scraping photos or face legal action, and 
Apple has blocked the app. If thousands of us call on Facebook to join them 
now, we can stop this dystopian future before it starts.

            Tell Facebook to stop letting Clearview steal our pictures!

            Clearview’s investors have gone on record saying they want to 
sell this app to the general public as soon as possible. It’s already being 
used by the FBI, Homeland Security and hundreds of other law enforcement 
agencies. While sometimes facial recognition can help solve crimes, the 
possibilities for abuse are endless.

            But this technology can’t work without a huge database of 
photos. Let’s get Facebook to act now and stop Clearview scraping our photos 
before it’s too late.

            Facebook, act now to stop Clearview scraping our personal 
images.

            Together SumOfUs members have taken on tech companies and won - 
from helping to force Google to shelve Dragonfly, its sinister surveillance 
search engine, through to forcing Facebook to ban white supremacist content.

            Now let’s stop this out-of-control surveillance machine before 
it’s too late.


             Sign the petition
            Thanks for all that you do,
            Vicky and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Google, YouTube, Venmo and LinkedIn send cease-and-desist 
letters to facial recognition app that helps law enforcement. CBS News. 
February 5th, 2020.
            The secret company that might end privacy as we know it. New 
York Times. January 18th, 2020.









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            From: Vicky Wyatt, SumOfUs
            Sent: Friday, March 06, 2020 6:39 PM
            Subject: If you post photos on Facebook, read this now






 
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