Facebook sends cease-and-desist to facial recognition startup Clearview AI over photo scraping

Facial recognition software startup Clearview AI has been under fire over revelations it's been training its machine learning algorithm on billions of publicly available photos, including public personal images scraped from social media without permission.

Now Facebook has become the latest tech giant to tell the controversial company to quit it.

A spokesperson for Facebook told Buzzfeed News that it has sent "multiple letters" to Clearview asking that it cease and desist scraping "data, images and media" from Facebook itself and from Instagram (which it also owns) and restating its policies as well as asking for further details about their work and activities. Read more...