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|Founded=2017 | |Founded=2017 | ||
|Industry=Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance Technology | |Industry=Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance Technology | ||
|Type=Private | |Type=Private | ||
|Website= | |Website=clearview.ai | ||
|Description=AI facial recognition software company | |Description=AI facial recognition software company | ||
}} | }}'''Clearview AI, Inc.''' is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement, government agencies, and private companies. The AI-software matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images collected from the Internet, including social media applications. The company maintained a low profile until late 2019, when its usage by law enforcement was first reported<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Mac |first=Ryan |date=23 Jan 2020 |title=Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That's Not True. |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-nypd-facial-recognition |website=Buzzfeed News}}</ref>. | ||
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The software is purportedly as simple as taking a photo of someone in public, then searching Clearview AI's database of over 3 billion photos which retrieves social media accounts connected to that person from all across the web<ref name=":0" />. | |||
Clearview AI was founded by Hoan Ton-That, Charles C. Johnson, and Richard Shwartz. Ton-That is a university dropout who began his career by creating phishing applications and computer worms and was subsequently investigated by police{{Citation needed}}. Shwartz is a politician who worked for New York mayors Rudy Guiliani and Ed Koch among other politicians{{Citation needed}}. Johnson is a right-wing political activist and potential FBI informant<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Mattathias |date=19 Oct 2023 |title=Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10 |website=Business Insider}}</ref>. | |||
==Consumer-impact summary== | ==Consumer-impact summary== | ||
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== | ==Entities reported to use Clearview AI== | ||
*[[Walmart]] | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||