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Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies

… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?

It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.