The average person on the internet is left with a difficult choice. Any new pictures that feature you, whether a simple Instagram shot or a photo tagged on a friend’s Facebook page, are potentially grist for the mill of a globe-spanning facial recognition system. But for many people, hiding our faces from the internet doesn’t feel like an option. These platforms are too deeply embedded in public life, and our faces are too central to who we are. The challenge is finding a way to share photos without submitting to the broader scanning systems — and it’s a challenge with no clear answers.

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Gershgorn, D. (2021, June 9). Is there any way out of Clearview’s facial recognition database? The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/22522486/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-avoid-escape-privacy

Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan for The Verge.