Clearview AI Scrapes 60 Billion Faces to End Anonymous Public Life

Clearview AI disclosed in a federal court filing that its database had grown to 60 billion facial images scraped from social media, news sites, and public web sources without consent, enabling identification of virtually any person photographed in a public setting. Legal experts testified the database effectively ended the practical anonymity that Americans had historically enjoyed in public spaces. The disclosure came during a class action lawsuit challenging the scraping as a violation of state biometric privacy laws.