Clearview AI Aims To Put Almost Every Human In Facial Recognition Database - AI Summary

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI reportedly told investors that it aims to collect 100 billion photos--supposedly enough to ensure that almost every human will be in its database. With $50 million from investors, the company said, it could bulk up its data collection powers to 100 billion photos, build new products, expand its international sales team and pay more toward lobbying government policymakers to "develop favorable regulation." "It limits the uses of its system to agencies engaged in lawful investigative processes directed at criminal conduct, or at preventing specific, substantial, and imminent threats to people's lives or physical safety." A federal judge "rejected Clearview's First Amendment defense, denied the company's motion to dismiss, and allowed the lawsuits to move forward," the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote yesterday. A Vice report yesterday quoted Ton-That as saying that Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber have "expressed interest" in using Clearview facial recognition "for the purposes of consent-based identity verification, since there are a lot of issues with crimes that happen on their platforms."