“Technology has an important role to play in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, but this health crisis cannot justify using unreliable surveillance tools that could undermine our privacy rights,” said
In, representatives for the police departments and companies using the facial recognition tool didn’t even know that their employees had used or were using it.
At the federal level, Clearview AI's facial recognition tool has been used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, two of several entities that had paid relationships with the company, according to data seen by BuzzFeed News.
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