![]() Tech companies are still helping police scan your face (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle/Getty Images The facility is the first in the country that is dedicated to providing expedited passport screening via facial recognition technology, which verifies a traveler's identity by matching them to the document they are presenting. Customs and Border Protection officers use it Miami International Airport to screen travelers entering the United States on Februin Miami, Florida. The camera is seen on a facial recognition device as U.S. A few states, including Illinois, California, and Washington, have related legislation that limits its use. In the absence of clear federal rules regarding the usage of the technology, a number of cities - such as San Francisco, Boston, and Portland, Oregon - have banned the technology in some capacity. The lawsuit is the latest attempt by grassroots groups to clamp down on facial-recognition software, which is not widely regulated in the United States. And while it could add a sense of security and convenience for businesses that roll it out, the technology has been widely criticized by privacy advocates who are concerned that it may include racial biases and have the potential for misuse. “Clearview AI complies with all applicable law and its conduct is fully protected by the First Amendment,” Floyd Abrams, a lawyer for the company, said in a statement to CNN Business on Tuesday.įacial recognition technology has grown in prevalence - and controversy - in recent years, popping up everywhere from airport check-in lines to police departments and drugstores. Major tech companies have sent the company cease-and-desist notices in the past, arguing its photo snagging practices violate their terms of service. The company has claimed to have scraped over 3 billion photos from the internet, including photos from popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times/Reduxįounded in 2017, Clearview AI compiles billions of photos into a database for its software, which can use these images to identify individual people. Hoan Ton-That, the chief executive of Clearview AI, uses the Clearview smart phone application in New York on Jan. ![]() ![]() Sejal Zota, a lawyer for the parties who brought the suit and the legal director at Just Futures Law, told CNN Business that the parties that brought the suit seek an injunction to prevent Clearview AI from being used in California, along with the deletion of face scans of Californians that the company has collected. ![]() The suit alleges Clearview AI’s database of images violates the privacy rights of people in California broadly and that the company’s “mass surveillance technology disproportionately harms immigrants and communities of color.” The lawsuit was filed by Mijente, NorCal Resist, and four individuals who identify as political activists. The complaint, which was filed Tuesday in California Superior Court in Alameda County, alleges Clearview AI’s software is still used by state and federal law enforcement to identify individuals even though several California cities have banned government use of facial recognition technology. Clearview AI, the controversial firm behind facial-recognition software used by law enforcement, is being sued in California by two immigrants’ rights groups to stop the company’s surveillance technology from proliferating in the state.
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