Vinson·Li

Index

On surveillance

  1. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft step back from face recognition

    In one week, three of the biggest companies in the field paused or ended police sales. Where I agree, and why a pause isn't a policy.

    2 min
  2. Clearview scraped three billion faces. This is why we built on-device

    The New York Times revealed a startup that matches any photo against billions of faces scraped from social media, and sells it to police. The worst version of my industry is now public.

    2 min