Infamous Security Firm Sucks at Security
Clearview AI, everybody’s favorite dystopian surveillance firm, is best known for its unsettling facial recognition technology and its partnerships with law enforcement agencies the world over. Yet the company had its own privacy invaded last February when a pretty catastrophic cyberattack saw hackers steal the company’s “entire list of customers, the number of searches those customers have made and how many accounts each customer had set up.” The culprit has not been identified and it’s unclear what happened to the firm’s data. While the company’s large collection of facial signatures was not compromised, it’s perhaps not comforting that a company that purports to have “billions” of picturesof our faces can’t keep hackers out of its system.
