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“Government agents should not be running our faces against a shadily assembled database of billions of our photos in secret and with no safeguards against abuse.”įollowing the breach, Gizmodo managed to get its hands on a version of Clearview’s Android app, which was stored on a publicly accessible Amazon server.
“This list, if confirmed, is a privacy, security, and civil liberties nightmare,” Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney with the ACLU, told Recode. Meanwhile, privacy advocates are very concerned about the consequences of the Clearview’s technology as well as its security issues. “We are not Clearview AI clients,” Best Buy said in an email to Recode, “We don’t use Clearview AI and don’t plan on using it in the future.” “While we conducted a limited test as we do with an array of potential vendors, we are not and have never been a client of this company,” the NBA said in a statement to Recode. Others, like the NBA and Coinbase, admitted to conducting trials of the software.
Several of the companies listed above have distanced themselves from Clearview. Kohl’s, which has run more than 2,000 searches across 11 different accounts, and Macy’s, a paying customer that has completed more than 6,000, are among the private companies with the most searches. Company logs reviewed by BuzzFeed News include Walmart (nearly 300 searches), Best Buy (more than 200 searches), grocer Albertsons (more than 40 searches), and Rite Aid (about 35 searches).
The logs also show that the startup is particularly interested in banking and finance, with 46 financial institutions trying the facial recognition tool.Įmployees at big-box retailers, supermarkets, pharmacy chains, and department stores have also trialed Clearview. BuzzFeed News reports:įor a company that maintains its tools are for law enforcement, Clearview’s client list includes a startling number of private companies in industries like entertainment (Madison Square Garden and Eventbrite), gaming (Las Vegas Sands and Pechanga Resort Casino), sports (the National Basketball Association), fitness (Equinox), and even cryptocurrency (Coinbase). It also raises questions about Clearview’s plans to make a publicly available facial recognition app, which experts have described as dangerous. There are also international entities like Interpol and a research center in Saudi Arabia not to mention some private investigators in the mix.Īll this information flies in the face of Clearview’s previous claims that it only worked with domestic law enforcement agencies. Not only does the client list revealed in the leaked documents include references hundreds of local police departments as well as federal agencies like ICE, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, but it also shows that retail companies like Best Buy, Walmart, and Macy’s have conducted trials with Clearview. The new BuzzFeed report paints a chilling picture of Clearview’s scope and ambition to market its all-powerful facial recognition technology. BuzzFeed News says it gained access to the leaked documents, and indeed, it looks like Clearview was working with everyone from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the NBA.
Clearview AI, the controversial and secretive facial recognition company, recently experienced its first major data breach - a scary prospect considering the sheer amount and scope of personal information in its database, as well as the fact that access to it is supposed to be restricted to law enforcement agencies.
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