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Not Content With Its Billions Of Web Scrapings, Clearview Tried To Buy Millions Of Mugshots And SSNs

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Clearview saw an opening in the facial recognition market and took full advantage of it. While most tech firms offered face-matching tech of dubious accuracy, Clearview went further, matching its AI to the billions of records it has harvested for free from the open internet. (And while this effort certainly wasn’t free, it definitely was cheaper than hiring a third party to do its web scraping for it.) Not satisfied with its 10 billion+ stack of…

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Not Content With Its Billions Of Web Scrapings, Clearview Tried To Buy Millions Of Mugshots And SSNs

Clearview saw an opening in the facial recognition market and took full advantage of it. While most tech firms offered face-matching tech of dubious accuracy, Clearview went further, matching its AI to the billions of records it has harvested for free from the open internet. (And while this effort certainly wasn’t free, it definitely was cheaper than hiring a third party to do its web scraping for it.) Not satisfied with its 10 billion+ stack of…

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