https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2020/jan/25/facial-recognition-apps-are-on-the-rise

Clearview AI may be controversial but it’s not the first business to identify you from your online pics

Way back in May 2011, Eric Schmidt, who was then the executive chairman of Google, said that the rapid development of facial recognition technology had been one of the things that had surprised him most in a long career as a computer scientist. But its “surprising accuracy” was “very concerning”. Questioned about this, he said that a database using facial recognition technology was unlikely to be a service that the company would create, but went on to say that “some company … is going to cross that line”.