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...It's not just law enforcement: Clearview has also licensed the app to at least a handful of companies for security purposes.
...Clearview's app carries extra risks because law enforcement agencies are uploading sensitive photos to the servers of a company whose ability to protect its data is untested.
...Clearview created a vast directory that clustered all the photos with similar vectors into "Neighborhoods." When a user uploads a photo of a face into Clearview's system, it converts the face into a vector and then shows all the scraped photos stored in that vector's neighborhood - along with the links to the sites from which those images came.
...In an August memo that Clearview provided to potential customers, including the Atlanta Police Department and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in Florida, Mr. Clement said law enforcement agencies "Do not violate the federal Constitution or relevant existing state biometric and privacy laws when using Clearview for its intended purpose."
...After the company realized I was asking officers to run my photo through the app, my face was flagged by Clearview's systems and for a while showed no matches.
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