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Kashmir Hill wrote in the New York Times this weekend how she started her investigation of Clearview AI, facial recognition software scraping the web for open source images and selling their services to police departments across the country,
"I was tipped off to the company’s existence by Freddy Martinez, a researcher for Open the Government, a nonprofit focused on government transparency, and Beryl Lipton, who works for MuckRock, a nonprofit news organization that helps people file public records requests. Last year, when they requested public records from 112 police departments about their use of facial recognition, a few departments gave them invoices and marketing materials for Clearview AI. Clearview stuck out because it claimed to be scraping social media sites and the open web instead of using mugshots or D.M.V. photos, as was the norm with the other vendors."
In partnership with Open the Government we have resources and tools to help you explore the use of facial recognition where you live. Learn from the documents we've collected about many large police departments across the country or file a request to learn how this technology is being used in your community here.
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