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AI company deletes the 3M OKCupid photos it leveraged for facial recognition teaching
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When online platforms violate their own privacy policies to sell your photos, have no fear: They might have to pay an undisclosed settlement fee 12 years later. (Who says justice is dead?) AI company Clarifai says it has deleted 3 million profile photos taken from dating site OkCupid in 2014.
Key facts
- The Delaware-based Clarifai reportedly certified the data deletion to the FTC on April 7
- Zeiller suggested to The New York Times in 2019 that people needed to, well, get over it
- The company also confirmed to US Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA) that it deleted any models that trained on the data
- We're collecting data now and realized that OkCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this," Clarifai founder Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn
Summary
The Delaware-based Clarifai reportedly certified the data deletion to the FTC on April 7. "We're collecting data now and realized that OkCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this," Clarifai founder Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn. Zeiller suggested to The New York Times in 2019 that people needed to, well, get over it. As part of the settlement, the FTC "permanently prohibited" OkCupid from misrepresenting its data collection and privacy controls.