Clearview

Clearview AI was breached earlier this week, with hackers stealing the facial recognition firm's ... entire customer list. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Shady facial recognition firm Clearview AI has had a very bad few days. On February 26, it emerged that the company had been breached, with hackers stealing Clearview…

Apple has cut off developer access to the iOS version of the Clearview AI facial recognition app, saying that it violates the terms of Clearview’s developer agreement, BuzzFeed News reports.Clearview AI was using a software distribution tool Apple created for developers to share their apps directly with people in their…

Apple has cut off developer access to the iOS version of the Clearview AI facial recognition app, saying that it violates the terms of Clearview’s developer agreement, BuzzFeed News reports.Clearview AI was using a software distribution tool Apple created for developers to share their apps directly with people in their…

Apple has cut off developer access to the iOS version of the Clearview AI facial recognition app, saying that it violates the terms of Clearview’s developer agreement, BuzzFeed News reports.Clearview AI was using a software distribution tool Apple created for developers to share their apps directly with people in their…

Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo A face recognition app used by thousands of law enforcement agencies, which has drawn considerable scrutiny in past weeks due to its creator's dubious data collection efforts, contains code hinting at a range of unreported potential features, based on a version of the app discovered by…

Rob Dobi for BuzzFeed News The United States’ main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy’s, and a sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates are among the thousands of government entities and private businesses around the world listed as clients of the…

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee on December 05, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty) A security breach at a face-recognition startup, already embattled over its unfettered collection of Americans’ personal data on behalf of its hundreds of…

“Security is Clearview’s top priority.” Tor Eklund, attorney for Clearview AI. Clearview AI, the dubious startup that’s cozied up to the US law enforcement community with its facial recognition software, has managed to crap the metaphorical bed by allowing an intruder to exploit a security flaw and make off with…

Police forces in the European Union are planning to establish an interconnected bloc-wide network of facial recognition databases, leaked documents reveal. An EU Council report, reportedly circulated among 10 member states last November, details measures led by Austria to legislate for the building of a network of facial recognition databases…

Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That. (Screenshot: PBS) Canadian authorities are investigating shady face recognition company Clearview AI on the grounds that its scraping of billions of photos from the web might violate privacy laws, Reuters reported on Friday. According to Reuters, privacy commissioners from the Canadian federal government and of…