Thread by @fs0c131y

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Me: I should work on <important project for a client>
Twitter: The Clearview AI Android app is available
Me: Change of plans

Let see what I can find 1/n

To be honest, I don’t expect something cool. Without credentials I will be probably stuck very quickly 2/n

As mentioned by @Gizmodo in their article, Clearview can be intsalled on the Vuzix smart glasses 3/n

@Gizmodo The Vuzix companion app mentioned in the strings of the Clearview APK is available on the Playstore play.google.com/store/apps/det…

@Gizmodo Clearview Terms of Service:
"Clearview must be used responsibly in the spirit and letter of the law. It must not be used without the subject’s consent."

What a joke...

5/n

@Gizmodo Permissions ask by the Clearview AI Android app. 2 interesting items: the ability to install apps (REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES) and the ability to record audio (RECORD_AUDIO) 6/n

@Gizmodo 2 native libraries can be found in the Clearview AI Android app:
- libface_detector_v2_jni
- libgpuimage_library

I'm very interested by the 1st lib, let's go back to it later

7/n

@Gizmodo By looking at the source code, we can see they integrated the Vuzix SDK which confirm what we saw previously in the strings 8/n

@Gizmodo This app is writing in Kotlin, they use data binding, the new Navigation component, etc. Their Android developer is good and he is following closely the news in the Android developers world. 9/n

@Gizmodo The app is realy small. Only 2 activities: MainActivity and SuspendedActivity 10/n

@Gizmodo In the App class, they init Sentry, "an error monitoring that helps all software
teams discover, triage, and prioritize errors in real-time." sentry.io/welcome/ 11/n

@Gizmodo You can also install the Clearview AI app on your Realwear 10. Hi @realwearinc 👋

@Gizmodo @realwearinc .@realwearinc is selling the "World’s best hands-free wearable rugged Android tablet for industrial workers." Why a worker need a face recognition app? 🤔 13/n

@Gizmodo @realwearinc Screens of the app 14/n

@Gizmodo @realwearinc My bad I added the same screnshot twice 14/n*

@Gizmodo @realwearinc Clearview AI is using an open source library to do realtime face detection: github.com/husaynhakeem/a…

@Gizmodo @realwearinc I'm more or less done with the static analysis. With few hours I can probably make this decompiled source code compile and have my own Clearview AI app 😏 16/n

This open source is just a wrapper on Firebase ML. So Clearview is using Google services to detect faces #justSaying

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