It has drawn the ire of privacy and security groups as well as companies like Meta (nee Facebook), Google, Meta and even Venmo, which are demanding that Clearview stop using "their" data. We support law enforcement and national organizations in their mission to identify victims and perpetrators in order to safeguard their communities and secure industry and commerce." The company's mission statement in part reads that that its goal "is to deliver the most comprehensive image-search solutions in the world. New York City-based Clearview was founded by Ton-That and Richard Schwartz in 2017, and The Register has been covering it for years, although it became even more prominent in November 2021 when The New York Times reported on the company with the headline "The Secretive Company that That Might End Privacy as We Know It." Those in Ukraine using the technology are receiving training and have to put in a case number and a reason for the search before queries can made, he said. Ton-That emphasized that the controversial technology shouldn't be regarded as the sole source of identification or used in ways that violate the Geneva Conventions, which hold legal standards for humanitarian treatment during war. The company has lately been seeking large governmental contracts. Clearview said it had not made its technology available to Russia.
Wolosky told Reuters that the VKontakte images give Clearview a more comprehensive dataset than such competitors as PimEyes, a publicly available image search engine. What the defense ministry is using the technology for is unclear, Ton-That said, adding that other organizations within Ukraine's government likely will begin deploying Clearview's facial recognition tools in the near future. Image-rec startup for cops, Feds can probably identify you from 3 billion pics it's scraped from Facebook, YouTube etc.Google, YouTube, Twitter tell face-rec upstart Clearview to stop harvesting people's content – that's their job.Facial recog firm Clearview hit with complaints in France, Austria, Italy, Greece and the UK.
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