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| Technology: | Information Security - Biometric Identification, Video Analytics Systems |
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2021: Illegal use of software by thousands of police officers and officials in the United States
In early April 2021, it became known that Clearview AI used free trials to promote its facial recognition technology among police and government officials. In some cases, police departments did not know that their employees were using this technology, which processes photos from social networks without permission.
More than 7,000 police and government employees in the U.S. used Clearview AI facial recognition software without permission from their superiors, according to a BuzzFeed News report. The publication checked the data and found that police officers used free trial versions sent to them by Clearview. Clearview's marketing strategy included distributing free trials to email addresses not only of the departments themselves, but also of individual employees. Officers and civil servants completed up to 340,000 searches between the summer of 2019 and February 2020, according to the report.
Heads of state departments reported that they did not give permission to their employees to use this tool. About 70 law enforcement officers and government officials initially denied that their employees used Clearview software, but after verification they found traces of use.
 | If not for your request, we would never have known about it, "the California police captain admitted to Buzzfeed. |  |
As of early 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had conducted 7,500 searches using Clearview software without a special contract awarded to the company, according to BuzzFeed.
Police Department, and New York United States Department of Justice U.S. Department of Defense are among the agencies whose employees used this. software Free versions of the software were also used by public school employees and staff,,,, armies AIR FORCE NAVY the Coast Guard and the Marines, according to a BuzzFeed investigation.[1]
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