Over 3,000 police departments use Clearview AI facial recognition

Over 3,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies use 🏛️Clearview AI’s smartphone app for instant facial recognition.

Clearview AI conducted over 2 million facial recognition searches in 2024 without formal departmental oversight or warrant requirements.

Officers have used the technology to identify people from protest photos, traffic cameras, or social media images without court approval.

Independent testing and civil-liberties analyses show higher error rates for Black Americans, leading to disproportionate misidentifications.

Many police departments adopted Clearview AI without public hearings, city council votes, or community input.

Clearview AI offered free trials directly to individual officers, enabling use outside of formal departmental policy frameworks.

FOIA-obtained documents revealed multi-year vendor contracts between Clearview AI and the NYPD, despite earlier denials of an institutional relationship.