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The text is a transcript of a segment from John Oliver's show Last Week Tonight, where he talks about the dangers and implications of facial recognition technology. He criticizes the lack of regulation and oversight for this technology, and the potential for abuse and discrimination by law enforcement, governments, and private companies. He also gives examples of how facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and invasive, and how some people are trying to resist or avoid it. He ends by urging his viewers to send a message to Clearview AI, a company that scrapes photos from the internet and sells them to law enforcement, by holding up signs with their opinions or demands.
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1. Facial recognition is a technology that can identify people by their faces from images or videos.
2. Facial recognition has been used by law enforcement, companies, and governments for various purposes, such as security, surveillance, and marketing.
3. Facial recognition has raised privacy and civil liberties issues, as it can potentially track, monitor, and target people without their consent or knowledge.
4. Facial recognition has also been shown to have technical flaws and biases, such as high error rates, low accuracy for darker-skinned and female faces, and misuse by unauthorized or unethical actors.
5. Some companies and locations have banned or limited the use of facial recognition, while others have continued to develop and deploy it without regulation or oversight.
6. Clearview AI is a company that has created a massive database of 3 billion images scraped from public social media, and has offered its facial recognition service to law enforcement and other entities, despite legal challenges and ethical concerns.
7. Clearview AI's founder is Hoan Ton-That, a controversial figure who has developed previous apps that violated user privacy or added Trump's hair to photos.
8. Some people have tried to find ways to avoid or trick facial recognition cameras, such as wearing makeup or holding signs with messages.