Clearview Officially Kicked Out Of Australia For Violation Country's Privacy Laws

Clearview -- the facial recognition tech company whose unproven AI runs searches on 10 billion images scraped from the web -- has been booted from another country. Last July, Clearview pulled out of Canada while under investigation by its...

Clearview Finally Submits AI For Independent Testing; Only Tests Feature It Isn't Actually Selling

At long last, Clearview has finally had its AI tested by an independent party. It has avoided doing this since its arrival on the facial recognition scene, apparently content to bolster its reputation by violating state privacy laws, making...

Clearview Is So Toxic Even Other Surveillance Tech Purveyors Want Nothing To Do With It

Outside of Clearview's CEO Hoan Ton-That, it's unclear who truly likes or admires the upstart facial recognition tech company. In the short time since its existence was uncovered, Clearview has managed to turn itself into Pariah-in-Chief of...

Clearview Celebrates 10 Billion Scraped Images Collected, Claims It Can Now Recognize Blurred, Masked Faces

Clearview's not going to let several months of bad press derail its plans to generate even more negative press. The facial recognition tech company that relies on billions of scraped images from the web to create its product is currently being...

Clearview Suffers Brief Bout Of Better Judgment, Drops Subpoena Demanding Activists' Communications With Journalists

Just a few days ago, Clearview -- the company that scrapes the web to build a facial recognition database it sells to law enforcement, government agencies around the world, and a number of private parties -- decided to make itself even less...

Data protection ombudsman raps Finnish police over controversial facial ID app

Clearview AI uses publicly-posted social media photos scraped from the web for use in law enforcement agency investigations.

'Chilling': Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas

Advocacy groups argue the company is trying to bully critics.

Clearview Tosses Subpoena To Non-Party Transparency Advocates, Demands Copies Of Communications With Journalists

Clearview is currently being sued by a small percentage of its database of scraped personal info. It is also being sued by a few state officials over privacy law violations. It is (also) also being side-eyed closely by the federal government,...

Clearview AI Offered Free Facial Recognition Trials To Police All Around The World

As of February 2020, 88 law enforcement and government-affiliated agencies in 24 countries outside the United States have tried to use controversial facial recognition technology Clearview AI, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation.

Victory! Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance

Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, and free speech. So EFF supports laws that ban government use of this dangerous technology, and laws requiring corporations to get written opt-in consent from a person before...

US Army Now Using Clearview's Unproven Tech To Investigate Crimes

We can add another government agency to the list of entities that have been suckered in by Clearview's highly questionable sales pitches about its unproven tech: the US Army. [Paywall ahead, but alternatives abound.] The US Army has a...