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Clearview AI
Clearview AI provides biometric facial recognition software used by private companies, law enforcement agencies, universities and individuals.
Clearview AI Biometrics News
Thousands of face biometrics searches without oversight enabled by Clearview market strategy
A searchable list of more than 1,800 public agencies with employees who used Clearview AI to search for people using face…
| Mar 24, 2021 | Shadowy origin story has observers picking at Clearview AIPrivacy advocates are starting to worry publicly that Clearview AI, the infamous face-scraping biometric startup, ultimately will prevail in court… |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Legal fight against Clearview AI’s facial recognition service growsDemographic groups are joining states and nations in demanding that Clearview AI end its massive face-scraping biometric service. Two California… |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Would you buy a used face-scraped dataset from Hoan Ton-That?The only telling moment in a recent TV interview of face biometrics innovator Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That is when… |
| Mar 1, 2021 | State facial recognition regulations considered as ACLU and Clearview stand in for informed debateMassachusetts new regulation of facial recognition diverges from the increasingly-worn paths of either preventing the technology’s benefits or not regulating… |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Standing in biometric privacy lawsuits needs clarification from U.S. Supreme Court, Clearview AI arguesClearview AI intends to argue for its interpretation of legal standing under Illinois’ biometric data privacy law in the U.S. Federal… |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Appeals court will not reconsider sending biometric privacy suit against Clearview AI back to state courtThe Seventh Circuit Appeals Court has declined to revisit a motion by Clearview AI to remand a biometric privacy suit against… |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Clearview AI face biometrics patent filing suggests consumer applicationA patent application filed by Clearview AI proposing the use of its biometric technology for the identification of individuals in… |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Canada needs biometric surveillance regulation with enforcement powers – Privacy CommissionersCanadian privacy commissioners at the federal and provincial level condemned Clearview AI’s biometric solution as unlawful mass surveillance, and called… |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Clearview AI files to re-argue remand in biometric data privacy case to avoid state courtA motion filed by Clearview AI with the Seventh Circuit requests the court rehear its argument against the previously-rendered decision to… |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Delete one person’s biometric records, German Data Protection Authority orders Clearview AIClearview AI will delete an individual from its biometrics database after the Hamburg Data Protection Authority declared the biometric profiles of… |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Facial recognition and other biometrics targeted in data privacy legislation, but what will feds do?Data privacy legislation is advancing in the U.S., though somewhat unpredictably, with different ramifications for biometrics vendors in different states…. |
| Jan 18, 2021 | Clearview AI biometric data privacy suit sent back to state courtA biometric data privacy lawsuit against Clearview AI will head back to state court after the Seventh Circuit Court of… |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Clearview AI biometrics searches spike as police work to identify Capitol riotersAlabama’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,… |
