![]() Air Force gave $2 million to RealNetworks, best known for video-streaming software RealPlayer, to put facial recognition on drones and body-worn cameras. Clearview AI has been in court for the last few years defending its right to scrape photographs from the internet. Kevin Frayer/Getty In mid-January, Clearview AI went from unknown startup to the star of its very own New York Times exposé. Legality of collecting facial images in doubt. As Forbes reported last year, facial recognition is being applied in myriad ways, including via drones and other unmanned vehicles. A government inquiry into federal agencies’ deployment of facial recognition may have overlooked some organizations’ use of popular biometric identification software Clearview AI, calling into question whether authorities can understand the extent to which the emerging technology has been used by taxpayer-funded entities. Facial recognition software created by the Chinese tech company Huawei. that permits an investigating officer to upload a photo of an individual of interest (a. It should perhaps come as no surprise the augmented reality tech is being sold to a government agency. Clearview is a facial recognition search engine licensed to law enforcement agencies by Clearview AI, Inc. Reporting from Buzzfeed previously revealed that private companies including the NBA, Macy’s and Walmart had used Clearview’s facial recognition. Clearview AI scraped more than 10 billion photos from the public internet to build a facial-recognition tool that it marketed to law enforcement agencies for identifying unknown. The company raised an additional $30 million last year, showing investors also haven’t been deterred, while the private market for facial recognition tech looks to be a lucrative one. “Since September, the Biden Administration’s ICE has more than doubled spending on Clearview AI, the FBI has publicly procured Clearview AI for the first time, the USPTO granted Clearview’s patent for augmented reality facial recognition, and now the company has a small business grant with the Air Force for augmented reality,” Poulson told Forbes, highlighting how successful Ton-That’s business has been, even with the negative press surrounding its collection of citizens’ facial images. ![]() Contract records show the FBI made an $18,000 order for a one-year subscription in December, while Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) has put at least $1.5 million on the table for Clearview tools for an unspecified number of enterprise licenses. ![]() ![]() Despite the controversies around Clearview, it’s continued to get work with the U.S. ![]()
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