Clearview: scraping the barrel

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Clearview AI is a US facial recognition company, which since its founding in 2017 has spent its time scraping a multitude of services on the web to find photographs of people along with their name or some detail of their identity, using them to create a huge database of more than twenty billion likenesses. If you can find a photograph of yourself on the web accompanied by your name, you are more than likely in the Clearview database…