The Impact of Clearview AI: Redefining Privacy with Facial Recognition Technology

Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup, has amassed a database of 30 billion faces by scraping billions of photos from the public internet without consent. While facing regulatory scrutiny outside the U.S., the company has settled a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union, limiting access to its database by private entities but still widely used by law enforcement. In her book, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It," New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill describes her investigation into Clearview AI and its audacious attack on anonymity, highlighting the lack of an overarching law in the U.S. guaranteeing control over personal data and privacy.