Clearview's facial recognition AI business model has always been "fuck everything." The company scraped the open web of all the data it could find, working its way towards a 100 billion image database that alchemizes social media posts into "intel" gold for Clearview. Not giving a damn about anything is starting to eat into Clearview's…
As part of the settlement in ACLU v. Clearview AI, the company is now permanently banned, nationwide, from making its faceprint database available to most businesses and other private actors.
click to enlarge The west side garage where a man was found unresponsive in his car In late August, a man was found unresponsive in his car outside the west side location of the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a local overdose prevention and harm reduction group, according to former employee Nikki Carter. After Carter said she believed a responding employee was taking an uncharacteristically long time to treat the man and return to the office, she said she went out to help and saw other responding workers shaking the car and banging on the window. Carter, a former project manager and drug checking technician at the organization, said it was later discovered that the man had been in the car for more than two hours before anyone noticed him.