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ICE just signed a contract with Clearview AI, the controversial facial-recognition company ...
ICE just signed a contract with Clearview AI, the controversial facial-recognition company that scrapes photos from social mediahttps://www.businessinsider.com/ice-clearview-ai-sign-contract-facial-recognition-2020-8
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will pay $224,000 for facial-recognition technology from the controversial startup Clearview AI, according to government records first reported by the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry.
Clearview AI has drawn heavy criticism from privacy advocates and civil-liberties groups for its facial-recognition software, which allows clients to identify people by uploading a photo of them to the system. Clearview's technology compares the photo to its database of over 3 billion images — mostly scraped from social-media sites — to produce a match.
Meanwhile, ICE is known to use facial recognition — the agency recently accessed state driver's license databases in order to further build out its facial-recognition capacities, according to a Washington Post investigation.
An ICE spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider the contract is with Homeland Security Investigations' Child Exploitation Unit and that facial-recognition software is used by agents investigating "child exploitation and other cybercrime cases.
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