Clearview AI Scraped 30 Billion Faces from the Internet Without Permission
Clearview AI built a facial recognition database of over 30 billion images scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and millions of other websites — all without consent. The company sold access to thousands of law enforcement agencies worldwide. Multiple countries fined or banned it: Canada, UK, France, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands. In 2022 it settled with the ACLU, agreeing never to sell its database to private companies.
Clearview AI built a facial recognition database of over 30 billion images scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and millions of other websites — all without consent. The company sold access to thousands of law enforcement agencies worldwide. Multiple countries fined or banned it: Canada, UK, France, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands. In 2022 it settled with the ACLU, agreeing never to sell its database to private companies.
Weirdness Classification
9/10 — Deeply unhinged
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