Billionaire used facial recognition app Clearview AI to get intel on his daughter's date

A billionaire supermarket tycoon used the creepy facial recognition app Clearview AI to investigate his daughter's date as she dined in a Manhattan restaurant. Gristedes Food CEO John Catsimatidis, 71, spotted his daughter, Andrea, on a date with an unfamiliar man while dining at Cipriani Downtown, an Italian restaurant in the SoHo neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan, in the October of 2018. Enlisting a waiter to secure a photo of the mystery individual, Mr Catsimatidis ran the image through the Clearview AI facial recognition system, which cross referenced the image with photos scraped from sites like Facebook and Instagram. The app produced a selection of other images of the man, along with the websites on which they appeared. The billionaire was able to discover that his daughter's date was a venture capitalist who hailed from San Francisco, California -- information he proceeded to text to Ms Catsimatidis from across the restaurant.