Clearview facial recognition searches double, database reaches 50B images

The number of facial recognition searches performed with Clearview AI by law enforcement officials has doubled over the past year, reaching 2 million. The company’s database of facial images for biometric comparison has also grown, reaching 50 billion in total, Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That told Biometric Update in an email.

The database reached 40 billion images in November of last year, and Ton-That told the BBC that the company had been used for one million searches as of last March. …

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