Clearview AI scrapes 60 billion faces to build database ending anonymous public life

Clearview AI announces its facial recognition database has surpassed 60 billion images scraped from public social media, news sites, and the open web — enough to identify virtually any American who has ever posted a photo online. CEO Hoan Ton-That says the database is deployed across over 2,200 law enforcement agencies in the US and dozens of governments abroad. NIST accuracy tests show Clearview's error rate for Black women is significantly higher than for white men. Clearview is banned in several countries and faces ongoing FTC and state AG investigations in the US. Civil liberties groups warn the database functionally ends the ability to exist anonymously in public spaces.