"Few if any topics receive as much attention in AI coverage as facial recognition, and few companies have as many news stories devoted to them as Clearview AI -- whose chief product is a 'search engine for faces,' or the ability to find someone's name from a photo of their face. By scraping publicly available images on the internet, they've built a vast database that has a good chance of having you in it if you live in the US."

What follows is a big list of links to news articles about Clearview AI. You gotta respect (but perhaps not admire) the chutzpah to break the law to produce a product and then directly sell it directly to law enforcement agencies. Despite the barrage of lawsuits, "Clearview AI is still going strong. In July 2021 it announced that it has raised $30 million from investors, and just last month it was reported that it is on track to win a US patent for its technology."

The messy history of facial recognition company Clearview AI

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