Experts fear the billion-dollar industry's potential for mass surveillance and its lack of safeguards to protect millions of images of real people's faces from theft or alteration.
An investigation revealed that more than 40 law enforcement agencies in Minnesota used facial recognition tech from Clearview AI. Experts have raised questions about the legality and reliability of this tech.
Clearview AI Yields Few Results for Minnesota Police
At least 42 law enforcement agencies across the state used the facial recognition software but many are discontinuing the service after zero percent of the software’s searches led to an arrest.
May 26, 2021 •
Buzzfeed investigation.
Clearview AI is a web-based platform that allows users to submit pictures for possible matches in a database of more than 3 billion images pulled from open source websites, including news sites and social media, according to the company s web page.
The company also boasted of a 100 percent accuracy rate at one point, according to a document obtained by a public records request from
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