Facial-Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement Says Entire Client List Was Stolen
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got “unauthorized access” to its list of customers.
A facial-recognition company that contracts with powerful law-enforcement agencies just reported that an intruder stole its entire client list, according to a notification the company sent to its customers.
In the notification, which The Daily Beast reviewed, the startup Clearview AI disclosed to its customers that an intruder “gained unauthorized access” to its list of customers, to the number of user accounts those customers had set up, and to the number of searches its customers have conducted. The notification said the company’s servers were not breached and that there was “no compromise of Clearview’s systems or network.” The company also said it fixed the vulnerability and that the intruder did not obtain any law-enforcement agencies’ search histories.
Tor Ekeland, an attorney for the company, said Clearview prioritizes security.
“Security is Clearview’s top priority,” he said in a statement provided to The Daily Beast. “Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century. Our servers were never accessed. We patched the flaw, and continue to work to strengthen our security.”
The firm drew national attention when The New York Times ran a front-page story about its work with law-enforcement agencies. The Times reported that the company scraped 3 billion images from the internet, including from Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. That process violated Facebook’s terms of service, according to the paper. It also created a resource that drew the attention of hundreds of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, according to that report. In a follow-up story, the Times reported that law-enforcement officials have used the tools to identify children who are victims of sexual abuse. One anonymous Canadian law-enforcement official told the paper that Clearview was “the biggest breakthrough in the last decade” for investigations of those crimes.
The notification did not describe the breach as a hack. David Forscey, the managing director of the no-profit Aspen Cybersecurity Group, said the breach is concerning.
“If you’re a law-enforcement agency, it’s a big deal, because you depend on Clearview as a service provider to have good security, and it seems like they don’t,” Forscey said.
Facial-recognition technology—which matches photos of unidentified victims or suspects against enormous databases of photos—has long drawn intense criticism from privacy advocates. They argue it could essentially mean the end of personal privacy, especially given the proliferation of security cameras in public places. Some law-enforcement officials, meanwhile, see it as a tool with enormous potential value.
Article via TheDailyBeast
Boosie Wants Politicians To Address Reparations For Black People
Article via Moguldom
Rapper Boosie BadAzz(formerly Lil Boosie)went to social media to support reparations for Black Americans. In his Instagram post, Boosie said Black people should receive reparations as Native American Indians received from the U.S. government. And he thinks politicians running for office should address reparations.
His post read: “I was just watching a show about Blacks n Black business n what they went through,” Boosie wrote. “Bra our people deserve money like the dam Indians get. We got completely murdered n fucked over by this nation. Every time we get successful they hung us. Do y’all know about Greenwood, Black Wall Street and how they did us. Bra I’m pissed. Where the fuck our money at?”
He continued: “Our wealth n lives was [taken] from us for any n everything,” Boosie continued. “Especially our business men n women. Why haven’t none of our fucking presidents ask that Black people be compensated forever? Why has this never been an issue at any presidential rally etc. Have we forgot? Do leaders feel we deserved it? Millions of Black lives taken n ‘Black Wealth’ just stripped, which have affected us ’til this day financially and emotionally. I hate u bitches who did that 2 us. I wish death 2 all of you. Blacks in this country still got no fucking respect r love n that’s real.”
Finally, he asked why reparations have yet to happen for Black Americans, XXL reported. “Where our fucking money at bitches?” Boosie said in closing. “Democrats, Republicans, presidents etc. Do u give a fuck what we been through? Political Blacks who r n power, why haven’t yo ass spoke up about our race being compensated. I guess y’all don’t give a fuck cause y’all [straight] now. Where our fucking money at?”
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‘Shark Tank’ star duped out of $400k in phishing scam
“Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran was taken for nearly $400,000 after her office was the victim of a phishing scam out of China.
One small typo was all the difference.
According to TMZ, an email chain was forwarded to Barbara’s bookkeeper that appeared to show the reality TV star’s executive assistant saying that Barbara had approved a $388,700.11 payment to a company called FFH Concept GmbH in Germany. However, the email didn’t come from her executive assistant, but rather from an email that looked just like it.
The bookkeeper asked the standard questions, and all the answers seems to line up with Barbara’s real estate dealings in Germany. However, the bookkeeper didn’t notice that the scammers changed the assistant’s email address by removing one letter, so unbeknownst to her, they were the ones actually communicating.
TMZ reports that the bookkeeper sent off the requested wire payment to the account listed in the original email. Afterward, she messaged the assistant at her real email. It was then that they discovered they had been victimized.
Barbara’s team traced the original scam emails back to a Chinese IP address. Her attorney’s are now looking into the matter, but it appears that the money is gone.
Article via Wonderwall
Britney Spears Sparks Mental Health Concerns After Speaking With A British Accent
Britney Spears has many worried about the current state of her mental health after the pop star posted a video on social media where she is back to using a British accent.
If you have followed Britney’s conservatorship case, you know at her lowest point, she was using the British accent while talking to photographers and was heard using it after being committed to a Los Angeles Psych Ward.
Britney posted a video to Instagram today, where is describing and showing her fans just how loud the birds are inside the Maui zoo.
She captioned the video, “I’ve never heard something so loud before in my life …. I felt like I was in a zoo !!!!! Such a cool day !!!! PS if you’re a bird then I’m a bird too …. pssss I get to be loud too wheeeee !!!!!”
But, towards the end video, she jokingly gets loud too and yells… “They’re so loud!”
The problem is that she switches to a British accent for the last part and it has may concerned about her current condition and has some worried about the last time she used the accent.
Back in 2008, when Britney Spears was committed to UCLA’s Psych Ward for evaluation she was primarily speaking in a British accent. At the time, law enforcement sources told TMZ, Britney was speaking “almost entirely in a British accent the night she was committed.”
Plus, while hospitalized, Britney made two calls from inside the unit where she was heard screaming on the phone about her father becoming the conservator of her estate. On the call, in a heavy British accent, Britney was heard saying “I’m so sick of all of this they can have the goddamn house and stick it up their f***ing asses. Actually, no they can’t.”
She continued to yell in the accent at the top of her lungs, saying, “Nobody’s taking my house. Who is my family?” At the time, she didn’t want her parents near her home and vowed to fight them in court.
As we reported, eventually Britney agreed with the conservatorship and had been in it for over 10 years.
Article via TheBlast
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Singer JoJo says she was put on 500 calorie-a-day diet as a teen
JoJo said that she saw a nutritionist who had her on a 500 calorie-a-day diet and that she received injections that made her have no appetite.
Singer JoJo opened up about body image in a recent interview, revealing that she was put on a 500 calorie-a-day diet as a teenager.
JoJo, born Joanna Levesque, 29, said in the wide-ranging interview with Uproxx that, in her teens, she was eager to release new music but that her record label at the time, Blackground Records, had burned a lot of bridges with different distribution companies.
She said that at one point she thought her appearance was preventing the release of her music.
“Because when I was 18, I remember being sat down in the Blackground office and the president of the label being like, ‘We just want you to look as healthy as possible,'” she recalled.
JoJo, who topped the charts when she was 13 with her debut single, “Leave, Get Out,” said she responded: “I’m actually the picture of health. I look like a healthy girl who eats and is active, and I don’t think that this is about my health. I think that you want me to be really skinny.”
Despite the label president’s denial, JoJo said that she was put in contact with a nutritionist who had her on a 500 calorie-a-day diet and that she received injections that made her have no appetite.
“Let me see how skinny I can get,” she said she remembered thinking. “Because maybe then they’ll put out an album. Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in a video and that they can’t even look at me.”
JoJo said she isn’t angry for being looked at as a product, because as an artist she believes she is one.
“I am speaking, I would say, for probably every woman in this industry that, you know, your image and your weight is up for conversation,” she said. “And it’s just uncomfortable. It’s hard enough being a woman.”
JoJo said she felt that she was not enough and was dissatisfying, so she turned to alcohol and sought out validation. There were nights she stumbled out of clubs or blacked out “and was completely reckless.”
“I needed to be buzzed to feel OK,” she said.
When asked whether she relied on substances “for a while,” JoJo responded yes and said she was able to overcome addiction by resolving not to end up like her father, who she said was an addict and died in November 2015.
JoJo was finally released from her contract with Blackground in 2014 after a yearslong legal battle.
Article via NBC
Pete Davidson Says His ‘Career Would Be Over’ If He Acted Like Ariana Grande
Pete Davidson believes a double standard is at play when it comes to how he and Arianna Grande are publicly perceived after their whirlwind 2018 summer romance ended as tragically as accidentally getting the word “‘BBQ grill’” tattooed on one’s hand … or yelling at college students for using their phones.
And nothing is more emblematic of that than a few jokes Davidson makes about his famous ex-fiancée in his new Netflix comedy special, “Alive From New York.”
In his stand-up routine, Davidson references a cover story on Grande in Vogue’s July 2019 issue, in which the pop star opened up about her intense relationship with Davidson that consisted of dating, getting engaged and breaking up within the span of about five months.
“I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction,” Grande told the magazine. “It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn’t know him.”
The “7 Rings” singer posed for the issue’s cover sporting a deep and controversial tan.
“Can you imagine if I did that?” Davidson said in his special, via Vulture. “My career would be over tomorrow. If I spray-painted myself brown and hopped on the cover of Vogue magazine and just started shitting on my ex.”
And although Ted Danson and Fred Armisen still have careers despite giving themselves spray tans, Davidson wasn’t quite done slamming his ex. He zeroed in on Grande describing their romance as a “distraction.”
“Can you imagine if I did that shit? If I was just like, ‘Yeah, I was just fucking her ‘cause I was bored, and then Fortnite came out.’ It would be insane,” Davidson jabbed.
The “Saturday Night Live” player then gets to his point.
“You’re like, ‘Pete, something had to happen to her, right? There had to be some repercussions.’ No, she won Billboard’s Woman of the Year and I got called ‘butthole eyes’ by BarstoolSports.com”
Davidson didn’t stop there. He also inferred that all of Grande’s fans are angry, cancel-happy 9-year-olds and how he can’t order drinks at Starbucks anymore because a cup size is called “grande.”
After talking about how all his friends thought Grande’s breakup anthem “Thank U, Next” (which mentions her split with Davidson) was catchy, the comedian decides to point out what he considers another double standard at work.
“I don’t like that she talked all this shit on, like, behalf of my dick,” he said. I thought that was super weird,” Pete said. “Can you imagine if I said that shit? Can you imagine if I was like, ‘Sorry, it didn’t work out. Nice pussy, though!’?”
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Duffy, The Singer Of The 2008 Hit “Mercy,” Said She Was Raped, Drugged, And Held Captive For Days
Duffy, who took a hiatus from music in 2011, wrote on Instagram that she would soon be releasing an interview about the incident and how it had stalled her career.
Duffy, the Welsh singer known for her 2008 hit “Mercy,” spoke out Tuesday for the first time in years to tell fans her silence came after being raped, drugged, and held captive for days.
“Many of you wonder what happened to me, where did I disappear to and why,” Duffy wrote. “The truth is, and please trust me I am ok and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days.”
Duffy, whose full name is Aimee Duffy, took a hiatus from the music industry in 2011 after her second album, Endlessly, fared poorly on the charts and with sales. In the years since then, she appeared in a few films but did not release another album and hadn’t posted on Instagram since October 2017, according to Wales Online.
Duffy wrote in her Instagram post that it took a long time for her to recover and that she opened up to a journalist last summer. The interview about what happened to her will be posted in the coming weeks, she said.
“You wonder why I did not choose to use my voice to express my pain? I did not want to show the world the sadness in my eyes,” she said in the post. “I asked myself, how can I sing from the heart if it is broken? And slowly it unbroke.”
BuzzFeed News was unable to reach representatives for Duffy on Tuesday.
The singer rose to fame after the release of her debut album, Rockferry, in 2008, which included the single “Mercy.” The album was certified platinum and sold millions of copies worldwide.
In her post Tuesday, Duffy thanked her fans for their support over the years and asked for privacy for her family.
“Please respect this is a gentle move for me to make, for myself, and I do not want any intrusion to my family,” she said. “Please support me to make this a positive experience.”
Article via Buzzfeed
FBI, NYPD raid New York office of company run by fashion executive Peter Nygard in connection to a human trafficking ring
The FBI and the NYPD raided the Times Square headquarters of Peter Nygard’s fashion company as part of a sex trafficking investigation, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan said.
The searches were conducted Tuesday morning, Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, confirmed to ABC News. He declined to elaborate.
Word of the searches first was reported by The New York Times.
Nygard, 78, has been under investigation after a number of women accused him of sexually assaulting them at his Bahamas estate when they were young teens. Nygard’s Bahamas estate has been featured on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”
A spokesman for the FBI’s New York field office declined to comment.
Searches usually indicate the investigation is in the early stages and not an immediate precursor to criminal charges.
The accusations were detailed in a lawsuit filed earlier this month.
“When Nygard became aware of the investigation into his sex trafficking ring, he resorted to tactics of violence, intimidation, bribery and payoffs to attempt to silence the victims and to continue his scheme,” according to the lawsuit.
Nygard, who has denied the allegations, has also been accused of abusive labor practices and tax evasion.
Ken Frydman, a spokesperson for Peter Nygard, told ABC News in a statement, “Nygard welcomes the federal investigation and expects his name to be cleared. He has not been charged, is not in custody and is cooperating with the investigation.”
Greg Gutzler and Lisa Haba, attorneys for victims in the ongoing civil lawsuit, said in a statement to ABC News:
“Given Mr. Nygard’s pattern of alleged horrific sexual abuse spanning decades and across the world, it is not surprising that he now finds himself under the scrutiny of the FBI. Our focus remains squarely on pursuing justice for the countless victims who have been so viciously harmed by Mr. Nygard and his enablers.”
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Gabrielle Union Demanded A Prenup from Dwayne Wade
Gabrielle Union — an actress best known for her roles in films such as Bring It On, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Bad Boys II — has been married to former NBA player Dwyane Wade for nearly six years. Though they have a marriage that is going seemingly well, the two have not been without their relationship struggles. They each had already been divorced by the time they married in 2014. And, for Union especially, there were some valuable lessons she took from her failed marriage that affected her decisions with concern to Wade.
Gabrielle Union’s first marriage was to Chris Howard
Wade wasn’t the first NBA player Union has been married to. Form 2001 to 2005 she was married to Chris Howard, in a union that many thought was doomed from the start.
The proposal alone was enough to give anyone pause. Howard was apparently snacking on a bucket of KFC chicken with one hand while waiting for Union at home with the ring in the other. The next day she discovered that he might be cheating but went ahead with the marriage anyway.
At the wedding, it was clear some of her friends weren’t happy about her decision. In Union’s memoir, We’re Going to Need More Wine, she wrote about how a friend she had asked to do a reading made his feelings known: “Dulé thought this marriage was a terrible mistake, so as he read from 1 Corinthians, he kept sighing dramatically, pausing to look at me like ‘Are you getting this?”
Gabrielle Union’s prenup with Dwyane Wade was her idea
Union hadn’t had a prenup with Howard, and even without the details of their divorce, it’s clear from her interviews she believes that was a big mistake.
During a 2014 interview with Arsenio Hall, just a few months before her marrying Wade, Hall asked if she’d always “chosen so perfectly.” The answer was no, and she gave several examples of poor choices she had made in the past.
When it came to her upcoming marriage to Wade she knew she wanted at least one big thing to be different.
“For this marriage… the biggest difference between this and the last marriage will be a prenup,” Union said. “At my insistence. When you have your own stuff, you don’t need to worry about anybody else’s stuff. So everyone should go into the relationship knowing I’m here for you and you’re here for me. And the reality is I’ve never seen Dwyane balance a checkbook. So… I gotta protect my stuff… That’s the wave of the future, protecting your stuff.”
She shared a similar sentiment in another interview: “I want to make it clear that I have in no way hitched my wagon to his star. I have my own wagon and star.”
Dwyane Wade had a messy divorce from his first wife
Though Union didn’t mention it in her comments about getting a prenup, it’s important to note that Wade’s divorce from his first wife Siohvaughn Funches was not at all amicable, and may have also played a part in Union’s decision. Funches and Wade were married in 2002 and divorced in 2007 but the legal battles lasted well into 2010.
Funches made claims that Wade had abused her and also said she was left without child support for their two children for long periods of time. She even unsuccessfully tried to sue Union at one point for, as she claimed, breaking up the marriage. Wade eventually got full custody of the children when all was said and done.
There is also the matter of Wade’s third child, who was conceived with another woman while he and Union were on a break in 2013. Details of this time in their relationship have just begun to come out thanks to his ESPN Documentary D. Wade: Life Unexpected, Dwyane. Wade says that telling Union about the child was one of the hardest things he’s ever had to do.
In 2018 Wade and Union had a child of their own together through a surrogate.
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Jussie Smollett Pleads With Illinois Supreme Court To Halt New Indictments Over Fake Hate Crime
Almost two weeks after being newly indicted on felony charges arising from the alleged fake hate crime attack of January 2019, Jussie Smollett was back in court today, in more ways than one.
Appearing in a Cook County criminal courthouse to plead not guilty this morning, the former Empire star was also pleading with the Illinois Supreme Court to kill the latest charges. The filed motion for a stay and dismissal of special prosecutor Dan Webb’s February 11 move of six renewed charges claims that “the recent Smollett indictment wasn’t proper because the special prosecutor was appointed incorrectly.”
As controversy continued to grow around the assault that Smollett asserted occurred in the early morning of January 29, 2019 and the sudden and seemingly painless dropping of 16 subsequent charges in March of last year by the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, ex-U.S. Attorney Webb was appointed by a judge late last summer – an appointment that never should have been allowed to go forward.
“The circumstances surrounding the initial case in 2019 did not reach the legal level warranting the appointment of a special prosecutor,” lawyer William J. Quinlan and long-time Smollett attorney Tina Glandian stated in the paperwork. “Under the terms of the law, in order to appoint a special prosecutor, the office (of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx) had to file a former recusal with the court,” the motion added, “and that didn’t occur here.”
In fact, at the corresponding appearance Monday in front of Land of Lincoln Judge James Linn, lawyers for Smollett sought to have the pause button hit on the whole arraignment due to the state Supreme Court action. With Smollett and supporters standing there, Judge Linn declined to delay the proceedings, heard the actor who played Jamel Lyon for five seasons on the Lee Daniels and Danny Strong created series enter his plea and told him to be back on March 18.
Essentially fired from the now ending Empire once it appeared all was not as Smollett claimed about the early morning attack, the actor has spent the last year battling ongoing and politically invoked lawsuit from the city itself over the initial Chicago Police Department probe into the claimed hate crime, challenges from the once “persons of interest” Osundairo brothers and the steady release of what were once sealed document and material.
Among those matters, there was also a failed previous legal attempt to have the special prosecutor pink slipped.
Thinking he was free of the potential 50 years in jail from the charges of the first case, Smollett could be looking at a decade or more behind bars from the half a dozen new charges of disorderly conduct if found guilty.
On the small screen, a Smollett-less Empire is back on Fox for its last episodes on March 3.
Article via Deadline