Clearview Calls It Quits In Canada While Under Investigation By The Privacy Commissioner

Clearview Calls It Quits In Canada While Under Investigation By The Privacy Commissioner

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200706/19510344849/clearview-calls-it-quits-canada-while-under-investigation-privacy-commissioner.shtml

Clearview AI -- the facial recognition service that gives all kinds of entities access to billions of face images scraped from the web -- is suddenly scaling back on its aggressive expansion plans. Once the plaything of billionaires, the unproven AI has been sold to retailers, fitness centers, police departments, and a handful of human rights violators.

Soon after its existence was exposed by the New York Times, Clearview AI proceeded to announce its plans to expand worldwide -- something it hoped to achieve while being sued multiple times in its home country. Canada was in its sights, but not so much any more.