The firm known for harvesting 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches may bring its technology to schools. The company revealed in an interview that it is working with a U.S. company to sell visitor management systems to schools. It came around the same time as a terrible shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Other facial recognition competitors have spent years trying to bring the tech to schools with varying levels of success. Two years ago, New York state banned facial recognition in schools. In a press release Wednesday, the company outlined a path toward one-to-one face match verification that could be used in schools, banks, and other private firms as part of its new product. Clearview wants to sell its facial recognition tool to enterprise companies. Private companies could use Clearview's system as a 1:1 identity verification tool before creating an online account, check-in a passenger at an airport, or protecting against financial fraud. FRT is used to access a building, board an airplane, and even for payment, according to a statement from the CEO. Clearview wouldn't say how many companies have shown interest in the program. Next-Level Sound can be experienced. Theater-like sound surrounds you with spatial audio with dynamic head tracking.
This new approach is a departure from the one-to-many facial recognition standard that was decried by privacy groups and lawmakers alike. Recent regulations targeting that specific aspect of Clearview's business have made them more willing to change.
Vaale, an app-based lending startup, is using the adapted verification approach from Clearview to match user selfies to their IDs. ID.me uses a similar approach to verify the identities of users attempting to access U.S. government websites. Privacy advocates prefer the more restrictive nature of the 1:1 face matching compared to the more wild west aspect of one-to-many recognition. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns face matching still poses a long list of potential problems.
Bennett Cyphers, Adam Schwartz, and Nathan Sheard of the EFF write that face matching raises serious digital rights concerns. This is also known as face identification.
Using facial recognition as a preventative measure means fewer crimes and fewer victims.
It comes partly out of necessity that the tech is database-free. In recent months, the walls have started to close around the country, with new restrictions and government opposition threatening to upend their core product offerings. This week, the U.K. government ordered Clearview to purge the face scans of all U.K. faces and pay a 7.5 million fine for violating the country's privacy rules. The U.K. asked Clearview to cease operations.
The American Civil Liberties Union struck a settlement with Clearview which effectively banned it from selling access to its database in the U.S. Privacy advocates like Albert Fox Cahn said the settlement was amilestone for civil rights.
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