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Clarifai uses this creepy facial profiling example to sell its services

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"Engadget is ⁠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.

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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. 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. As part of the settlement, the FTC "permanently prohibited" OkCupid from misrepresenting its data collection and privacy controls.

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