Clearview AI Scraped Billions Of Facebook Photos For Facial Recognition Database

Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That told the BBC in an interview that the company has scraped 30 billion photos without users' knowledge over the years from various sources, including Facebook, to build its facial recognition database.

Facial recognition firm Clearview has built a massive AI-powered database of billions of pictures collected from social media platforms without obtaining users' consent.

In late March, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That told BBC in an interview that the co...

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