Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/ #ClearviewAI #FacialRecognition #Immigration #Tech #Extremism #FarRight

'Clearview’s business model is based on “weaponizing our own images against us without a license, without consent, without permission,” says Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.'

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

I found this #BC Supreme Court ruling on #ClearviewAI absolutely delicious, especially the findings that the #PIPA Personal Information Protection Act applies to out-of-province companies with a “real and substantial” connection to BC and that the act of processing personal information from people in BC from the internet is sufficient to form that connection #ai #privacy https://www.blg.com/en/insights/2025/03/court-upholds-privacy-commissioners-order-against-foreign-ai-company

#FacialRecognition Company #Clearview Attempted to Buy #SocialSecurity Numbers and #Mugshots for its Database
#ClearviewAI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal. https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/ #privacy #surveillance

#FacialRecognition Company #Clearview Attempted to Buy #SocialSecurity Numbers & Mugshots for its Database

Controversial facial recognition company #ClearviewAI attempted to purchase hundreds of millions of arrest records including SSNs, mugshots, & even email addresses to incorporate into its product, #404Media has learned.

#law #privacy #tech #InfoSec
https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI attempted to purchase hundreds of millions of arrest records including social security numbers, mugshots, and even email addresses to incorporate into its product. Read more at @404media. #ClearviewAI #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/XCU5t6

FacialRecognition Company #Clearview Attempted to Buy #SocialSecurity Numbers & Mugshots for its DB

Controversial #FacialRecognition company #ClearviewAI attempted to purchase hundreds of millions of arrest records including social security numbers, #mugshots , & even email addresses to incorporate into its product

collected photos from social media websites incl #Facebook ,#LinkedIn & others & sold access to its facial recognition tool to law enforcement
#ssn #privacy

https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/

Here is NASA’s Contract with #ClearviewAI
#nasa #ai #privacy

https://www.404media.co/here-is-nasas-contract-with-clearview-ai-2/

CEO of #ClearviewAI, a controversial #FacialRecognition startup, has resigned

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/ceo-of-clearview-ai-a-controversial-facial-recognition-startup-has-resigned/

A proposed class action settlement with #ClearviewAI is so terrible that 23 state attorney generals signed a brief to protest it. Oakland Privacy activists flew to Chicago to tell the judge personally why she should not approve this settlement. #facialrecognition https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/clearviewai

A proposed class action settlement with #ClearviewAI is so terrible that 23 state attorney generals signed a brief to protest it. @oaklandprivacy activists flew to Chicago to tell the judge personally why she should not approve this settlement. #FacialRecognition https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/clearviewai

#NASA Bought #FacialRecognition Tech #ClearviewAI, a powerful and controversial #surveillance tool uses billions of images scraped from social media to perform facial recognition, according to U.S. government procurement data. Part of NASA that will use Clearview AI is its oversight body, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has special agents who sometimes carry concealed firearms, perform undercover operations, and develop cases for criminal or civil prosecution
https://www.404media.co/nasa-bought-facial-recognition-tech-clearview-ai/

I boosted this earlier. If this is the first you are hearing of #ClearviewAI, I would encourage you to read the book #YourFaceBelongsToUs by @kashhill @kashhill@threads.net

The history of this company, explained. Cannot recommend this book enough.

#Privacy #FacialRecognition #Security

https://www.404media.co/nasa-bought-facial-recognition-tech-clearview-ai/

Remember to opt out of #ClearviewAI's settlement before September 20, 2024:

https://www.clearviewcopout.org/

Clearview AI, sanzione da 30 milioni di euro per violazione del Gdpr con il riconoscimento facciale: L’autorita’ olandese per la protezione dei dati (Dutch Protection Agency) ha annunciato di aver inflitto una sanzione di 30,5 milioni di euro a Clearview AI, l’azienda americana specializzata in tecnologie e servizi di riconoscimento facciale. Clearview AI e’ nota per aver creato un vasto database...
#Federprivacy #ClearviewAI #riconoscimentofacciale #GDPR #privacy http://dlvr.it/TDCbr9

#clearviewai might have stolen your #face, too. And, they probably are going to keep it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/clearview-ai-fined-33m-for-building-illegal-database-of-face-images/

ClearviewAI Fined For Hosting Illegal Database For Highly Invasive Facial Recognition Tech

#Dutch #ClearviewAI #Privacy #facialRecognition #biometrics #News #Tech

https://techinformed.com/clearview-ai-fined-over-33m-for-illegal-facial-recognition-database/

Cops’ favorite face image search engine fined $33M for #privacy violation

According to the #Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), #Clearview #AI "built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces" by crawling the web and without gaining consent, including from people in the #Netherlands
#ClearviewAI

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2046793