04/21/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uGeRTmDdqUI&t=12s
An interesting look at the emerging technology of facial recognition. My colleague, Patrick Bailey, and I represented a client wrongly accused of and charged with vehicular homicide. While taking numerous depositions, engaging the services of 3 experts (blood-spatter, accident-reconstruction, and bio-mechanical engineering), and filing and arguing motions to suppress evidence, permit other evidence in (including the statements by the witness we used the AI to eventually find), and to dismiss the case, we were searching for the witness who told law enforcement that our client was the passenger. Once we found him and the prosecutor on the case took his deposition, the case against our client was dropped entirely.
Controversial facial recognition firm, Clearview AI says it now has 30 billion images, scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users' permissi...
