“Clearview AI is exploiting a long-standing vulnerability in the architecture of the platform economy: Data that we might comfortably make public individually can, in aggregate, lead to the equivalent of a police state,” write Jonathan Zittrain and John Bowers in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “The world is better when people can, say, look you up by name if you like, but not look you up by face after simply glimpsing you somewhere, whether in person or by happenstance, in a photo or video. And privacy is increasingly collective: Once available data reaches a critical mass, the emergence of services like those offered by Clearview AI becomes almost inevitable.”