New App Will Allow You To Take Picture Of Someone On The Street And Then Find Their Name Instantly

Literally nobody asked for this. 

SOURCE-What if a stranger could snap your picture on the sidewalk then use an app to quickly discover your name, address and other details? A startup called Clearview AI has made that possible, and its app is currently being used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the US, including the FBI, says a Saturday report in The New York Times. 

The app, says the Times, works by comparing a photo to a database of more than 3 billion pictures that Clearview says it's scraped off Facebook, Venmo, YouTube and other sites. It then serves up matches, along with links to the sites where those database photos originally appeared. A name might easily be unearthed, and from there other info could be dug up online.

How about absolutely not. 

Nope. 

I'm not even sure I'm okay with the FBI using it, but a random person on the street? Imagine the creeps that would use this app? I'd pray for every girls DMs if this app ever comes to fruition. 

The size of the Clearview database dwarfs others in use by law enforcement. The FBI's own database, which taps passport and driver's license photos, is one of the largest, with over 641 million images of US citizens.

I'm Mr. Free Market, but I feel like we shouldn't let this exist…right? Just people snapping photos of you on the street and then finding about your life story by the end of the day on social? NOPE. 

Law enforcement officers say they've used the app to solve crimes from shoplifting to child sexual exploitation to murder. But privacy advocates warn that the app could return false matches to police and that it could also be used by stalkers and others. They've also warned that facial recognition technologies in general could be used to conduct mass surveillance.

Stalkers using it…..Uhhhhhhhh ya think?

Privacy is done. I'm not even sure it's worth fighting.