![]() ![]() This came after a report found that the company worked with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, private companies and individuals around the world. ![]() Last year, the US face tracking company faced several lawsuits prompting it to cancel all its accounts with customers not associated with law enforcement or government agencies. “Clearview AI has a pattern of deception: the company has been publicly defending its mass surveillance by claiming it will only sell to law enforcement while privately pitching an expansion into finance, retail and entertainment," Poulson told Reuters. However, critics like Jack Poulson, executive director of tech accountability group Tech Inquiry, aren’t convinced. “Previous reporting has highlighted past trial use of Clearview’s technology by private companies, and we have not decided to sell the service that uses our image database to non-governmental industries at this time,” Ton-That wrote in an email. Ton-That also stressed that Clearview does not plan to sell their facial recognition to non-governmental industries. He said they are “examples of the types of firms who have expressed interest in Clearview AI's facial recognition technology for the purposes of consent-based identity verification, since there are a lot of issues with crimes that happen on their platforms.” When asked by TRT World, Ton-That said “there are no current plans to work with the companies mentioned.” However, the company has also been clouded in controversy for alleged attempts to venture into other sectors, such as using its facial recognition services for identity verification in apps.Įarlier this month, CEO and co-founder Hoan Ton-That told VICE News’ Motherboard that technology companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb “have expressed interest in Clearview's facial recognition technology for the purposes of consent-based identity verification.”Īlthough all three tech giants denied any interest in Clearview’s technology, Ton-That’s statement stoked concerns that the company continues to eye an expansion into more widely used platforms by the public. ![]() The company was founded in 2017 and has since signed contracts with the US Air Force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI.Ĭlearview says its mission is to safeguard communities and support government agencies in identifying victims and perpetrators of crimes via image-search. With a database of more than 10 billion facial images from web sources, US company Clearview AI has created an intelligence platform that uses facial recognition technology to aid law enforcement officials. ![]()
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