Demystifying Clearview: Vehicle Tracking with Public CCTV Cameras and TensorFlow

Our first meetup following All Things Open 2020, and one of the final meetups of what has been a unique and unprecedented year in so many ways, will focus on Clearview, an interesting project and tool you might have heard about and one that has raised quite a bit of concerns as well. We feel it's one our community should be aware of.

Samuel Brice was scheduled to deliver this talk at ATO 2020 back in October but was not able to due to illness. He has very graciously agreed to deliver the talk just for our meetup audiences.

Talk title: Demystifying Clearview: Vehicle Tracking with Public CCTV Cameras and TensorFlow

Talk abstract:
Recently the New York Times published an article about Clearview AI - the secretive company that might end privacy as we know it. Using a database of billions of images scrapped from websites such as Facebook, and Instagram Clearview can track and identify anyone with a web presence. The tool is actively being used by police agencies around the country and many citizens are concerned about its potential for abuse. My talks goes into detail explaining how Clearview's system works by demonstrating a similar system for tracking and identifying cars using public CCTV cameras. I will cover the steps of implementing such a pipeline from collecting training data, to building a neural net model, to tracking the movements of a car in time and space. Lastly I will cover the implications of such a capability on privacy as well as what can be done to protect our privacy today.

Speaker:
Samuel Brice - Software Engineer, Director of Engineering, Two Sigma and NumFOCUS
https://2020.allthingsopen.org/speakers/samuel-brice/

The official meetup start time will again be 12 noon EDT, and the session will "open" and be accessible starting around 11:45 am EDT. We'll begin with 5-10 minutes of announcements then move right into the presentation. It will be followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A before wrapping up.

*Please note registration is required - the invite link is the following - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KIgnNC1ZTKqujDxvM9ucJg

We'll also be giving away a good number of items following the meetup as well, including Raspberry Pi kits and more.

Please direct questions to us at info@allthingsopen.org.