Lawsuit claims Clearview AI fired employees for being too old

Two former employees of Clearview AI are suing the facial recognition company for age-based discrimination.

The plaintiffs, Mark Crowl and David Edgar, both worked as sales directors who shopped the company’s products to law enforcement at the state and local level. Crowl, 62, and Edgar, 55, say in their complaint (via Bloomberg Law) that they were unlawfully terminated for being perceived as too old for the job, and that Clearview “offered purely pretextual reasons for the terminations meant to conceal …

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