Pressure is mounting on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discontinue \u2014 or at least clarify \u2014 its relationship with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company best known for scraping billions of images of people from social media sites.<\/p>\n
A coalition of nearly 70 immigrant rights, civil liberties and privacy groups called on the agency to \u201cimmediately stop\u201d using the company\u2019s technology in a letter sent to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday that was first shared with The Hill.<\/p>\n
Clearview AI provides software that can identify and provide information about individuals using images of their faces. The technology is marketed to law enforcement but has also been used by private organizations like the NBA<\/p>\n
The company \u2014 which has received widespread criticism and cease-and-desist letters from most major social media platforms \u2014 does not disclose what entities it provides services to, but federal contracts and reporting shows that DHS, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have all paid for access.<\/p>\n
The groups are concerned that immigration authorities could be abusing the facial recognition technology to locate, arrest and even deport individuals using data that they did not consent to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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