By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says. Clearview AI violates Californians ...

M ore and more privacy watchdogs around the world are standing up to Clearview AI, a U.S. company that has collected billions of photos from the internet without people’s permission.. The ...

AI company harvested billions of Facebook photos for a facial recognition database it sold to police In a BBC interview, Clearview's CEO admitted to scraping user photos for its software ...

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from social media to build its facial recognition database. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company's CEO told the BBC.

In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos that users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow the company to flag ...

The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it’s on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world ...

Jon Callas of the E.F.F. called the scanning intrusive, saying a family photo album on someone’s personal device should be a “private sphere.” (A Google spokeswoman said the company scans ...

Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, said products like Google Photos and the Nest camera had violated Texans’ privacy rights. By Kashmir Hill and David McCabe The Texas attorney general ...