Clearview AI co-founder and President Hoan Ton-That resigns, after stepping back as CEO in December 2024, and says he will continue serving as a board member
After he led the company through controversy and lawsuits, the company struggled to secure big federal contracts. — Now, Clearview is focused on selling to the Trump border effort and the Pentagon. ...
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
https://arstechnica.com/... h/t @Nonya_Bidniss Evan Greer / @evangreer@mastodon.online : I spoke with the NYT about why giving people harmed a stake in Clearview AI is not a solution. — #FacialReco...
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill that would let state police use face recognition for image matching, but not face surveillance or emotion recognition
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. Mastodon: @aregenberg@mastodon.online . Twitter: @torrhl and @kjaerulv . Forums: r/pr...
France's privacy watchdog says Clearview AI breached GDPR and orders it to delete user data within two months; Clearview counters that it has no EU customers
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Clearview CEO says it has collected over 10B images from across the web and is building ways for police to find people, including deblurring and mask removal
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance. Tweets: @zittrain , @jetjocko , @brbarrett ...
Profile of Johannes Caspar, who was Hamburg's data protection commissioner for over a decade and investigated Facebook, WhatsApp, Clearview, PimEyes, and Amazon
Cathrin Schaer / Wired UK : Tweets: @robertjbateman , @wolfiechristl , @andrejonker , and @samuelstolton Tweets: Robert Bateman / @robertjbateman : Great piece on Hamburg DPA and Johannes Casper. “We...
Clearview AI SEC filing revealed $8.6M in equity sales from undisclosed investors and identified two previously unknown board members
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @rmac18 , @bri_sacks , @levynews , and @rmac18 Tweets: @rmac18 : As the company faces a host of lawsuits (Illinois class action, Vermont AG, others) the fundraise shows that t...
Canadian privacy watchdog says Clearview AI will cease offering facial recognition tech in Canada and suspend its contract with RCMP
before it was pushed Tom McKay / Gizmodo : Shady Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says It's Left Canada Amid Two Federal Investigations Tweets: Thomas Daigle / @thomasdaigle : Federal and provincial...
ACLU sues Clearview AI in Illinois alleging the facial recognition startup violated residents' privacy by scraping, selling their online photos without consent
Alleging Clearview violated a well-known Illinois biometric privacy law — The American Civil Liberties Union …
YouTube and Facebook send cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter in January
With Authoritarian Regimes James Hale / Tubefilter : YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist To Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Social Media Images For Law Enforcement Tristan Greene / The Next Web : F...