Clearview AI Settles Facial Recognition Suit With ACLU, Will Alter Some Practices

Photo caption: Hoan Ton-That, CEO of Clearview AI, demonstrates the company’s facial recognition software using a photo of himself in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Photo credit: Associated Press. Article by Cyrus Farivar. Forbes – May 9, 2022.

Clearview AI, a controversial surveillance tech company, settled a nearly two-year-old lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union and other activist groups in Illinois who alleged the company had violated a state privacy law known as the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Under the terms of the agreement announced on Monday, Clearview AI is no longer allowed to sell access to its vast faceprint database to private businesses and other entities anywhere in the country, outside of a few key exceptions. […]

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