No, Clearview AI's creepy plan to spy on us is not 'free speech' Jake Laperruque

Law enforcement agencies around the world are enthusiastically adopting the services of Clearview AI, a tech company whose powerful software scrapes several billion open-source images for the purposes of facial recognition. As the company confronts mounting criticism over its disturbing surveillance practices, its CEO, Hoan Ton-That, is rolling out an audacious new defense: he claims that Clearview's practices are protected by the first amendment. Ton-That's upside-down views of civil liberties are, it seems, just as Orwellian as his company's surveillance apparatus. Fortunately he is dead wrong. The constitution does not shield Clearview AI from accountability.