Facial Recognition

Clearview AI Search

Upload a face, get back where that person lives online.

The core product: a facial-recognition engine searching 60+ billion images scraped from the public web. Police upload a probe image and receive matches with links to source pages.

What it does

▸60B+ image index
▸Probe-to-web matching
▸Mobile app for officers
▸Case export

Where it's deployed

◍1,800+ US public agencies (reported)
◍FBI & DHS use

Agencies using it

FBIDHSICELocal LE

Abuses & incidents

Investigation

The secret face-scraping company, exposed

2020

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.

↳The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It — The New York Times, 2020 ↗

Sources

↳The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy — The New York Times, 2020 ↗

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