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Clearview AI
Clearview AI provides the world’s largest facial network to support law enforcement and government agencies in their shared mission to keep communities safe. Our revolutionary intelligence platform, powered by facial recognition, helps accurately and rapidly identify suspects, investigate crimes, enhance public safety, and provide justice to victims. Law enforcement utilize Clearview AI’s collection of 10+ billion open-source images to generate high-quality leads.
Clearview AI Biometrics News
Clearview fights biometric app ban by Canadian province in court
Clearview AI is pushing back against a ban on its forensic face biometrics app imposed by a Canadian data protection…
| Jan 12, 2022 | Clearview AI’s US law enforcement facial recognition footprint grows with FBI contractThe latest U.S law enforcement sign up for Clearview AI’s facial recognition-as-a-service app is a modest $18,000, one-year contract, spotted… |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Application of state biometric data privacy laws for companies, feds debatedDifferences between how biometrics use is treated in state and federal laws in the United States are behind motions to… |
| Dec 8, 2021 | Disclosure sought on Clearview facial recognition use and by company in separate casesA freedom of speech group in the U.S. has filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking details about the use… |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Clearview’s internet-as-facial recognition reference database concept to be granted patentThe core concept behind Clearview AI, that of using all public images on the internet as a reference database for… |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Clearview AI faces provisional $23M fine, cease and delete notice from UK regulatorFollowing a joint investigation with its counterpart in Australia, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced its provisional intent… |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Clearview joins leaders in NIST face biometrics accuracy testingThe face biometrics algorithms scoring the highest accuracy in the latest benchmark from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and… |
| Nov 11, 2021 | Oosto backs call for scraped biometrics deletion; Clearview fires backAn industry dust-up has broken out over the appropriate composition of biometric reference databases for law enforcement applications, with Oosto endorsing… |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Clearview enters NIST biometric accuracy test with a splash amid image struggleClearview AI is taking steps to back up its biometric accuracy claims and show the legitimacy of its business model, with… |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Postal Service moves to dismiss biometric data privacy suitThe U.S. Postal Service has filed a motion to have a lawsuit alleging it failed to meet its legal obligations… |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Clearview launches facial recognition tools to deblur images and remove masksA pair of new features have been added to Clearview AI’s facial recognition capabilities to help law enforcement identify people… |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Clearview has a heavy-handed plan to scare away organizations and journalistsMost executives decorate their new business to look like parade floats while others drive down Main Street in an army… |
| Aug 30, 2021 | US judge rules biometric processing of public data not protected by First AmendmentAn Illinois state court has rejected Clearview AI’s motion to dismiss a biometric data privacy suit against it on grounds… |
| Aug 26, 2021 | US federal agencies plan to increase facial recognition use, GAO report saysThree-quarters of U.S. federal agencies surveyed for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report are already using facial recognition and more… |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Clearview AI wins a military facial recognition contractA German-owned online news publisher has published documents reportedly revealing that a criminal investigation unit of the U.S. Army is… |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Clearview stuffs new board with police, military and government facesControversial facial recognition service firm Clearview AI has enlisted an advisory board to guide product development and ethics. The ethics… |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Neither AI inaccuracy nor FOIA requests nor human rights stays USPS surveillanceFor some privacy advocates in the United States, news that the U.S. Postal Service is accused of using facial recognition… |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Biometric data privacy law liability limited for tech providers, pre-empted by union agreementsThe frequency of class actions alleging biometric data privacy violations and scope of liability exposure have increased since the landmark… |
| Jul 28, 2021 | The biometric law of the jungle: It’s always open season on data-gazelles for data-lionsIs there a difference between what Clearview AI has done by scraping social media photos to be used for commercial gain… |
| Jul 23, 2021 | The gamification of biometric surveillance (Not as fun as it sounds)If everything can be gamified, then life battling blanket facial recognition should be a hoot, though on second thought, “a… |
