Months before facial recognition company Clearview AI was on the front page of the New York Times, the company was quietly advertising to police departments across the country, emails obtained by OneZero show.
面部识别公司Clearview的AI先于M onths是上头版的纽约时报 ，该公司悄悄地发布给全国各地的警察部门，由OneZero表演获得电子邮件。
Clearview AI emailed advertisements to police departments in August 2019 with the subject line “How To Solve Crimes Instantly With Face Search Technology,” using the Fraternal Order of Police’s online platform FOPConnect.
Clearview AI于2019年8月通过警察在线平台FOPConnect的兄弟命令，通过电子邮件将广告发送给警察部门，主题为“如何使用面部搜索技术立即解决犯罪”。
“Clearview is like Google Search for faces,” the ad copy reads. “It only takes one photo of a suspect’s face, one quick tap on your cell phone or computer, and one second of search time. Get results from mug shots, social media, and other publicly available sources.”
“Clearview的是像谷歌搜索FO [R面Kong，”广告文案读取。 “它只拍摄犯罪嫌疑人的面部照片，快速敲击手机或计算机上的照片以及一秒钟的搜索时间。 从抢劫照片，社交媒体和其他公开来源获得结果。”
FOPConnect is operated by 911Media, which has previously advertised an email list with more than 60,000 recipients, including police departments around the country. The FOP is a U.S. law enforcement labor organization with around 350,000 members. On a phone call with OneZero, a member of 911Media said the Clearview email was an advertisement but declined to comment further. Clearview also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
FOPConnect由911Media运营，该公司以前已与包括全国各地警察局在内的60,000多名收件人一起发布了电子邮件列表。 FOP是一个拥有约350,000名成员的美国执法劳工组织。 911Media的成员在与OneZero的电话中说，Clearview电子邮件是广告，但拒绝进一步评论。 Clearview也没有回应多个评论请求。
“Strategic ad buys will grow your brand recognition in the nationwide public safety community,” 911Media wrote in the 2019 advertising brochure. “Position your brand with law enforcement across the country and create a relationship with these officers.”
911Media在2019年的广告手册中写道：``战略性广告购买将提高您在全国公共安全社区中的品牌知名度。'' “将品牌定位于全国各地的执法部门，并与这些官员建立关系。”
OneZero obtained a month’s worth of emails sent by FOPConnect to determine whether facial recognition was a typical advertisement for the mailing list. Of six other emails sent by FOPConnect in August 2019 to the police department of Green Bay, Wisconsin, three were for education opportunities, one was for fundraising strategies, another was a training platform, and the last was speech recognition software for easier dictation of notes.
OneZero获得了FOPConnect发送的一个月的电子邮件，以确定面部识别是否是邮件列表的典型广告。 FOPConnect在2019年8月发送给威斯康星州绿湾警察局的其他六封电子邮件中，三封用于教育机会，一封用于筹款策略，另一封用于培训平台，最后一封是语音识别软件，可简化口述笔记。
“Strategic ad buys will grow your brand recognition in the nationwide public safety community.”
“策略性广告购买将提高您在全国公共安全社区中的品牌知名度。”
By the time Green Bay police received the email, it had already trialed Clearview’s software. The department heard about Clearview AI from the Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center, which was also testing the tech, according to Green Bay Police Department office coordinator Lisa Wachowski.
到绿湾警察收到电子邮件时，它已经试用了Clearview的软件。 格林贝警察局办公室协调员丽莎·沃卓斯基(Lisa Wachowski)称，该部门从威斯康星州州立情报中心听说了Clearview AI，该中心也在测试该技术。
Clearview’s marketing efforts went beyond the August email to FOPConnect. The company sponsored a report in Police Magazine on facial recognition and was slated to speak in September on two panels at a security conference, according to an email sent by conference organizers obtained by Freddy Martinez, policy analyst at Open the Government.
Clearview的营销工作超出了八月份发送给FOPConnect的电子邮件。 根据公开政府政策分析师弗雷迪·马丁内斯(Freddy Martinez) 获得的会议组织者发送的电子邮件，该公司在《 警察杂志》上赞助了一份有关面部识别的报告，并定于9月在一次安全会议上在两个小组中发表演讲。
Former Clearview CEO Richard Schwartz gave a talk in September 2019 at the ISS World North America, a conference for law enforcement and intelligence professionals, titled “How Intelligence + Image Recognition Can Save a Risk-Prone World.” He also sat on a panel called “Best Practices for Deploying a Facial Recognition Program.” A conference organizer confirmed that Clearview participated in the conference.
Clearview的前首席执行官Richard Schwartz于2019年9月在ISS World North America举行了一次演讲，该会议是针对执法和情报专业人员的会议，题目为“情报和图像识别如何挽救一个冒名顶替的世界”。 他还参加了名为“部署面部识别程序的最佳做法”的小组。 会议组织者确认Clearview参加了会议。
The New York Times noted in its January exposé on Clearview AI that the company also tapped Republican influencers to sell the technology and placed advertisements on CrimeDex, a platform for financial crime investigators.
《 纽约时报》在其1月在Clearview AI上的一次曝光中指出，该公司还利用共和党有影响力的人出售这项技术，并在犯罪犯罪调查平台CrimeDex上刊登了广告。
At least some law enforcement officers were not receptive to Clearview’s pitch. Emails obtained by OneZero from a police department in Irving, Texas, reveal one police sergeant’s issues with the technology. “This is exactly the kind of bullshit we’ve been talking about that will get the technology [facial recognition] shut down for law enforcement,” he wrote.
至少一些执法人员不愿接受Clearview的推销。 OneZero从得克萨斯州欧文的警察局获得的电子邮件揭示了一名警长对该技术的问题。 他写道：“这正是我们一直在谈论的那种胡说八道，这将使技术(面部识别)因执法而被关闭。”
Clearview AI has come under scrutiny in the past month for allegedly scraping images from publicly accessible websites on the internet, like Facebook and LinkedIn, and funneling those images into a facial recognition database that was then sold to law enforcement, according to the New York Times exposé. BuzzFeed News later reported that 2,200 organizations across the world had used Clearview AI.
据《纽约时报》报道 ，过去一个月，Clearview AI受到了严格审查，原因是它涉嫌从互联网上可公开访问的网站(如Facebook和LinkedIn)抓取图像，并将这些图像集中到面部识别数据库中，然后出售给执法部门。 曝光 。 BuzzFeed新闻后来报道说，全球2,200个组织已使用Clearview AI。
Since that story came out, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn, among other platforms, have come out demanding that Clearview stop scraping their websites for images.
自从出现这个故事以来， Facebook ，Twitter，Google和LinkedIn等平台已经问世， 要求 Clearview停止抓取其网站上的图片。
Clearview is now facing a lawsuit that cites Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, which prohibits the collection of biometric information in that state without consent.
翻译自: https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-the-ad-clearview-ai-used-to-sell-your-face-to-police-8997c2a6f0a8
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