“Clearview violates that right to a massive degree,” said Rebecca Glenberg, senior supervising attorney at the ACLU of Illinois. “It essentially creates a face template, which is a biometric identifier, for every person whose image is publicly available on the internet — whether they posted it themselves, someone else posted it. Whether they even know it’s there, Clearview scoops up all of that information.”
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Since lawsuits were filed against Clearview AI, the company contacted the Macon County Sheriff’s Department “and every other Illinois agency and said your account is shut down, we’re refunding you your money,” German said.
The circuit judge reviewing the lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois is scheduled to issue a ruling in August, Glenberg said.
The Macon County sheriff’s office used Clearview AI primarily for training, German said, but also on some criminal cases. They have since used Pimeyes.com and Microsoft Bing.
Facial recognition can only be used for investigative leads because search results, “probably 99% of the time,” do not lead to identification.
“As long as they follow the national and international standard guidelines for facial recognition, it’s only an investigative lead,” German said. “You cannot arrest a person on it; you cannot get a search warrant based on it,” but, “In some rare instances you have law enforcement agencies do the wrong thing,” and make arrests based on facial recognition search results.
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