CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Civil liberty advocates believe Clearview’s expansive database of photos violates privacy, because the images, though public on the web, were collected without people’s consent. The tool can unearth photos that people did not post themselves and may not even realize are online.

Detailed explanation-2: -AI processing makes use of vast amounts of data, and some of it could be sensitive personal information. Through analyses some of it could be used for identifying purposes. There is also the risk, where data has been anonymized, of it being deanonymized (possibly using AI) or not anonymized sufficiently to begin with.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, AI systems may have the capability to single out and identify an individual who supposedly was not identifiable from the input dataset’s perspective. Such identification may happen even accidentally as a result of the AI computation, exposing the individual in question to unpredictable consequences.

Detailed explanation-4: -Renderos sued Clearview last year, saying the company violated a California law that allows residents to control their own likenesses, the right to privacy under the California constitution, and California’s Unfair Competition Law.