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  • Author(s): Grossman, Wendy M. (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    New Scientist. 10/7/2023, Vol. 260 Issue 3459, p27-27. 3/4p. 1 Color Photograph.
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    • Subject Terms:
      VISUAL fields; BUSINESSPEOPLE; DATA privacy; DATABASES; UNITED States Capitol Insurrection, 2021
    • Abstract:
      Eric Schmidt, then executive chair of Google, said the company had decided not to build a facial recognition database because doing so was "crossing the creepy line". The tech firm had amassed a database of billions of faces scraped off the web, and its business model rested on selling access to that information to law enforcement. Views Book Your Face Belongs to Us Kashmir Hill Simon & Schuster IN 2011, two things happened within a few weeks. [Extracted from the article]
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