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Clearview AI
Clearview AI provides biometric facial recognition software used by private companies, law enforcement agencies, universities and individuals.
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Clearview AI biometrics searches spike as police work to identify Capitol rioters
Alabama’s Oxford city police department is among U.S. law enforcement departments using Clearview AI’s controversial biometric facial recognition software to…
| Dec 21, 2020 | Clearview AI to face consolidated biometric data privacy suit in Illinois in partial victoryClearview AI is facing a multidistrict data privacy suit over its sale of biometric services in Illinois, after having its… |
| Nov 18, 2020 | LAPD prohibits use of third-party face biometric softwareThe Los Angeles Police Department will cease its use of and access to facial recognition software Clearview AI, reports Buzzfeed…. |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Seattle police officer’s use of Clearview AI face biometrics may have violated city policyControversial facial recognition company Clearview AI and Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers exchanged hundreds of emails in which police were… |
| Nov 9, 2020 | EFF says First Amendment can’t save Clearview AI biometric faceprintingArguments can be made for protecting faceprinting under the First Amendment, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation says biometric face-scraping vendor… |
| Oct 28, 2020 | EPIC files lawsuit to force release of ICE facial recognition documentsThe Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on… |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Biometric privacy suit against Clearview AI remanded to state court in blow to defenseA biometric privacy lawsuit against Clearview AI has been remanded to Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois by a federal judge,… |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Clearview AI to provide tools for responsible facial recognition use by law enforcementClearview AI is planning to introduce new compliance features for its biometric application to help law enforcement customers enforce usage… |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Clearview AI seeks dismissal of biometric data privacy suit, says changes ensure complianceVoluntary changes to company policy make biometric data privacy violation allegations against Clearview AI moot, according to one of several arguments… |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Hitachi ID, Idex Biometrics, Daon and Clearview AI announce leadership, board appointmentsSeveral digital identity and biometric technology providers have made additions to leadership teams across the globe. Hitachi ID has announced… |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Law enforcement face biometrics provider Clearview AI raises $8.6MClearview AI has raised just over $8.6 million in funding from undisclosed investors, though the associated paperwork has revealed the identity… |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Clearview AI loses bid to dismiss biometric privacy suit brought by Vermont AGA biometric data privacy lawsuit brought by Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan against Clearview AI will move forward after a Vermont… |
| Sep 11, 2020 | Clearview AI seeks biometric privacy claim consolidation, new BIPA cases brought and defenses consideredClearview AI is asking to have 11 biometric privacy class action suits combined with each other, and another suit by the… |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Central position in biometrics and privacy debate “an honor,” Clearview AI CEO saysIn a one-hour-long video interview with This Week in Startups, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That discusses the misconceptions around biometric… |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Hamburg data protection commissioner demands answers on biometric dataset from Clearview AIAn administrative order on information regarding the biometric processing of personal data has been issued against Clearview AI and its… |
| Aug 18, 2020 | U.S. district court gets Clearview AI’s attention; biometrics firm decries latest legal setbackThe fight over biometric face-scraping and -selling is building like a professional wrestling story line, and, at least to some,… |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Veridium, Patriot One, LumenVox and Clearview AI announce hires to grow biometrics and CV market shareSeveral biometrics companies and a video analysis firm have announced new hires as they look to build their technology portfolios… |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Clearview AI wins biometrics contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amidst ongoing controversyAn investigation by industry watchdog Tech Inquiry has revealed that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency paid $224,000 to… |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Judge rejects Clearview AI’s motion to move or dismiss biometric privacy suits, consolidates complaintsBids by Clearview AI to dismiss or relocate a biometric privacy suit from federal court have been rejected, with U.S. District… |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Macy’s sued for allegedly violating biometric privacy with Clearview AI useMacy’s use of Clearview AI’s face biometrics violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to a proposed class action… |
