1/ Earlier this year we learned that Clearview AI was stockpiling people's personal social media photos to power their facial recognition system. One of our biggest concerns was how ICE might use this info to deport people.

Today, we filed a FOIA request https://bit.ly/3o7ELN5 
2/ We need to know how ICE is using Clearview's facial recognition system. Adding facial recognition to ICE's arsenal further expands their surveillance dragnet, which means more invasions into personal info, more privacy intrusions, and more deportations based on sketchy data.
3/ Learn more about how Clearview AI is crawling the internet, capturing people's personal photos and feeding them into a database that police can draw on: [link to NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html]
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
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