Clearview AI: Difference between revisions

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|Website=clearview.ai

|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>.

}}'''Clearview AI, Inc.''' is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement, government agencies, and (previously) 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>.

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" />.

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==Entities reported to use Clearview AI==

*[[Walmart]]

*'''[[Walmart]]''' - 2020, before the ACLU lawsuit when Clearview AI was banned for private companies

==See also==

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 |Website=clearview.ai
 |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>.
+}}'''Clearview AI, Inc.''' is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement, government agencies, and (previously) 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>.
 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" />.
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 ==Entities reported to use Clearview AI==
-*[[Walmart]]
+*'''[[Walmart]]''' - 2020, before the ACLU lawsuit when Clearview AI was banned for private companies
 ==See also==