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Today, Everalbum completed the dark turn that lies at the heart of surveillance capitalism.
Join me for a trip down memory lane. 1/7 https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/ever-once-accused-of-building-facial-recognition-tech-using-customer-data-shuts-down-consumer-app/
Join me for a trip down memory lane. 1/7 https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/ever-once-accused-of-building-facial-recognition-tech-using-customer-data-shuts-down-consumer-app/
Everalbum started as a photo-storage app in 2013, amassing billions of private photos from millions of users. 2/7
And then, around 2016, those private photos became the raw materials of a facial-recognition algorithm that Ever AI (same company, almost the same name) marketed to police and the military. 3/7
As @oliviasolon and @cfarivar reported in their 2019 expose, most of Everalbum's users had no idea. 4/7 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-uploaded-photos-ever-app-then-company-used-them-n1003371
Three months after the source of their algorithm was revealed, Ever AI renamed itself Paravsion to distance itself from the controversy. 5/7 https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/ever-once-accused-of-building-facial-recognition-tech-using-customer-data-shuts-down-consumer-app/
Now Everalbum is gone, Paravision is still selling surveillance tech, and the billions of private consumer photos are apparently no longer of any use. 6/7
In sum, companies should cut this out.
With respect to what comes next, here's hoping Paravision will soon fulfill its destiny of being incinerated by the molten core of the sun. 7/7
With respect to what comes next, here's hoping Paravision will soon fulfill its destiny of being incinerated by the molten core of the sun. 7/7
