The secret face-scraping company, exposed
2020Kashmir Hill revealed that Clearview had quietly scraped billions of photos and sold facial-recognition search to police — a company almost no one had heard of, already used by hundreds of agencies.
Co-CEO & early investor
Founder of Texas-based Point Bridge Capital, which runs the 'MAGA' ETF, and a Republican campaign fundraiser (Ted Cruz, Rick Perry) who served on Trump's inaugural committee. An early Clearview investor, he was named co-CEO in late 2024/early 2025 to pursue federal contracts under the Trump administration.
Kashmir Hill revealed that Clearview had quietly scraped billions of photos and sold facial-recognition search to police — a company almost no one had heard of, already used by hundreds of agencies.
An ACLU suit under Illinois' biometric-privacy law ended with Clearview permanently barred from selling its faceprint database to most private companies nationwide.
Regulators in France, Italy, Greece, the U.K., and Australia ruled Clearview's scraping unlawful and levied multi-million-euro fines and deletion orders.
A leaked client list showed Clearview had been tried or used by thousands of police departments, the FBI, ICE, and even retailers — often without public knowledge or oversight.