On privacy, one of Clearview’s early investors, David Scalzo:
“I’ve come to the conclusion that because information constantly increases, there’s never going to be privacy,” Mr. Scalzo said. “Laws have to determine what’s legal, but you can’t ban technology. Sure, that might lead to a dystopian future or something, but you can’t ban it.
Instead, he argues, mass surveillance has three important components: identification, correlation and discrimination. Any privacy law needs to tackle all three.
Here’s Mr. Schneier’s key point:
A ban on facial recognition won’t make any difference if, in response, surveillance systems switch to identifying people by smartphone MAC addresses. The problem is that we are being identified without our knowledge or consent, and society needs rules about when that is permissible.
We Need a Law to Save Us From Dystopia by Charlie Wanzel