Controversial face recognition company Clearview AI pledges to stop selling tech to private firms

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says it will stop providing private entities with its technology. According to legal documents first reported by Buzzfeed, the company is ending non-government related contracts in response to class-action lawsuits and scrutiny from regulators. The court documents suggest that Clearview is voluntarily avoiding'transacting with non-governmental customers anywhere.' 'Clearview is cancelling the accounts of every customer who was not either associated with law enforcement or some other federal, state, or local government department, office, or agency,' the company said in a filing Buzzfeed reports that the lawsuit from which the documents stem relate to the companies use of biometric data that is being heard in a being heard in an Illinois federal court. The documents also show that Clearview will cease its contracts with all entities in Illinois as part of the lawsuit.