Clearview AI's Social Media Face Scraping Draws Fresh Scrutiny

A Nikkei report highlights Clearview AI's continued practice of building facial recognition databases from social media photos, reigniting privacy concerns.

Clearview AI's practice of scraping social media platforms to build its facial recognition database is drawing renewed attention following a report flagged by @nikkei. The company's model, which matches faces against billions of images collected without consent from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X, remains legally contested in multiple jurisdictions but operationally active.

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