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[ SOUND ] One of the wildest things I read this 

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weekend, the New York Times reported on a facial 

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recognition company called Clearview, which is 

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partnered with hundreds of police departments across 

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the US. Most facial recognition works this way. You 

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have a photo in a database, and when it scans faces in 

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public, it matches that person with that photo. So 

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unless you're already logged in there, it doesn't really 

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work on you. Clear View Works in a much different way 

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the entire internet is basically the database so the 

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Clear View a I had basically scraped Facebook 

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venmo YouTube anywhere where there's a photo of 

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available online attached to a name publicly. It has it, 

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so the way that Clearview would work is if I took a 

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photo of you, it would scour this massive database that 

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already scraped the entire Internet, to match it with 

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somebody instead. So that is the future that we have to 

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look forward to with it Ai and facial recognition. So if 

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I'm reading into this correctly to clear view what they 

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did goes against the terms and conditions of a lot of 

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those websites. But again, it's completely legal for 

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them to do that, like they were able to create this 

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database. I believe of billions of different photos. And 

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it doesn't go against anything from the government. 

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The government can't say, you weren't allowed to do 

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that. No, yeah, there are no laws on facial recognition, 

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or at least federally. There are laws in Illionis and 

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Texas, but this is different Where it's scraping 

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the websites. It's perfectly legal. But there are also 

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some additional laws in what, Somerville, 

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Massachusetts. That's different. San Francisco. That's 

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specifically for police are banned from using facial 

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recognition. So, those are Some additional layers but 

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yeah, there are some pretty gaping holes here as well. 

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Yeah. So the way that this works is is more like if 

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I had taken a photo of you It's like she's zamfir faces 

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where it looks through this whole database. Yeah, I've 

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entered fine like maybe your photo on LinkedIn and 

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find your photo on Facebook. More likely than not, it 

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would probably find your photo from this video, and 

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be able to say, that is Ben of CNET. He covers 

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Amazon, and I'm not gonna say on air where you live, 

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or anything like that. But it would be able to note that 

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detail, and connect it with you there. Yeah, we have an 

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editor that works here that is extremely suspicious of 

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getting his photo taken and putting it anywhere online. 

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And I used to think he was super paranoid, but 

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apparently, he was very much onto something. Yeah, I 

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was looking for my ski mask before I came onto this 

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show, but I think I threw it out by accident. But- That's 

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too bad. Yeah, I mean, that's just how it is, we are all 

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logged in. Some database in the future, where anyone 

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can find us. Which, that is the future. 

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I mean, obviously, there are privacy advocates working 

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against it, and lawmakers who are hoping to establish 

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rules against this, but Honestly like the way it is 

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right now they can just do all this and that's just how it 

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is. Yeah. So if you ever vote online, you know most 

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more than likely are being tracked. [ MUSIC ]