Over the weekend, the New York Times published a report on Clearview AI: an (until now) unknown company that offers facial recognition services to some 600 law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.
Using this app, if someone takes a picture of you on the street, you could upload it to the platform and in a matter of seconds compare it to a gigantic database, being able to get your name, address or other details.
More than 3,000 million images
To give us an idea of its capacity, this company has an image library that is seven times larger than the FBI. Using Clearview AI software, these agencies can compare uploaded photos with a database that has more than 3,000 million images.
To create this database, Clearview has fed it with content that they have extracted from social networks and even from the classic "about me" (about me) sections that appear on company websites
Currently, this Clearview tool is not available to the public, but The New York Times says that both investors and police believe it will be in the future.
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