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• @caro1inehaskins Caroline Haskins on x

  We've created a searchable table of 1800+ publicly funded agencies that are listed as having used the facial recognition tool Clearview AI, per data we've obtained. Reporting this, by contacting every agency in the chart, took 9 months. Here's the story: https://www.buzzfeednews.…

• @dellcam Dell Cameron on x

  Per Buzzfeed, @DallasPD officers used Clearview AI's facial recognition software w/o the department's permission. “Officers we found using the app on their **personal devices** were instructed not to use the app **as part of their job functions**” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ..…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  If the biggest tech companies in the world won't fight to protect their users' information against startups that violate their terms of service, what does that say about their terms of service? What does it say about their willingness to enforce their own rules?

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Scrutiny on FB this week is about a leak of user information. Clearview not only scraped millions of photos from FB and Instagram but has openly bragged about using those photos to create a tool that it sells to law enforcement. FB says it cares about privacy, but does it really?

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  It took more than a year to report this story. We contacted more than 1,800 US taxpayer-funded organizations listed in data as having using Clearview AI to ask about facial recognition. Here's a thread of some our most important findings: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @onlymyya Blackity Black Myya on x

  Both West Virginia State Police and West Virginia University are listed as having used Clearview AI's facial recognition tool. https://twitter.com/...

• @hamzakaroumia Hamza Karoumia on x

  Police departments across the country are using Facial Recognition tech to search and store people's facial data often without permission & warrants. Rock Island PD has this tech. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @borwin10 Borwin on x

  Sacramento area agencies on the list as having used Clearview AI facial recognition: Dixon PD El Dorado Co Sheriff Elk Grove PD Folsom PD Placer Co DA Placer Co Sheriff Roseville PD Sac County Probation Sac Co Sheriff Sac PD Stockton PD Vacaville PD Vallejo PD Woodland PD https:/…

• @caro1inehaskins Caroline Haskins on x

  Update, it was @DocR0cket who filed this amazing public record request and got this set of docs!! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @tedlieu Ted Lieu on x

  In addition to privacy concerns, unregulated deployment of facial recognition technology results in massive equal protection violations because the software is often less accurate for darker skin tones. I am working on legislation that would require a warrant in most cases. https…

• @dallas_protest @dallas_protest on x

  This is why security during protests is paramount. Police will use any means to mark, identify and then attack you. They will act outside the law because they feel above it. This is more than likely smaller numbers than reality. (Thread) https://twitter.com/...

• @ajfriedenberger Amy Friedenberger on x

  Facial recognition technology has been quietly deployed across the country, often without communities knowing it's being used. Tomorrow, Virginia's legislature will vote on a measure to ban law enforcement use of the technology unless the General Assembly authorizes its use. http…

• @devon_wiersma @devon_wiersma on x

  Relevant for Canadian peeps as this is the same tech RCMP and Toronto Police had been officially using until recently and probably to the same standard: https://twitter.com/...

• @johngallias John Gallias on x

  1/2 Hey @A2Police why does @BuzzFeed say you performed 51-100 Clearview AI searches and “did not respond to a request for comment.”? At the 1/4/2021 City Council meeting when asked by @lsong you said... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @buzzfeednews @buzzfeednews on x

  These groups include hundreds of local and state police departments, ICE, the US Air Force, state attorneys general offices, and even schools. We built a searchable database for you to see if your local police have used the service. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @techpolicypress @techpolicypress on x

  New emails between NYPD & Clearview AI raise questions: 1) Did NYPD use Clearview to investigate its own officers? 2) How does NYPD work with ICE using facial recognition? 3) Are officers accessing Clearview on personal devices and with personal emails? https://techpolicy.press/.…

• @orphir_ @orphir_ on x

  Hey so per the table in this story Pittsburgh Police has used Clearview AI and in the last article I can find about it from PublicSource they denied doing so. Might be worth asking them that question again. 100-500 searches isn't nothing. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @jane__bradley Jane Bradley on x

  “For example, it matched an artificial face to an image of a real girl of color in Brazil, whose school had posted her picture to Instagram. For searches of computer-generated white faces, no false matches occurred.” https://twitter.com/...

• @jpegjoshua Joshua on x

  Philly Police and Phila DEA are both using facial recognition technology https://twitter.com/...

• @jameeljaffer Jameel Jaffer on x

  If you're arguing in court that your surveillance app won't lead to a dystopia in which facial recognition tools are used pervasively and indiscriminately, maybe you shouldn't be telling the NYPD to use your app pervasively and indiscriminately. https://techpolicy.press/...

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on x

  Emails between NYPD and the controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI are now in the public domain via a FOIL response on the nonprofit news site @MuckRock. They prompt questions about how the department administers access to the software: https://techpolicy.press/...

• @jakelaperruque @jakelaperruque on x

  This is a hell of an expose on how Clearview AI's face recognition is being pushed into police departments, often without any formal plans for its use, let alone rules and policies to provide safeguards and limit abuse. A must read: https://twitter.com/...

• @bri_sacks Brianna Sacks on x

  After nearly a year, this behemoth is finally live: Hundreds of US law enforcement and other public agencies got access to a facial recognition tool. And thousands of officers ran searches on people, often without their own departments knowing about it. https://www.buzzfeednews.c…

• @mtdukes Tyler Dukes on x

  More than 60 law enforcement agencies in NC used the controversial facial recognition app Clearview, records leaked to @BuzzFeedNews show. Top users in our state? Police departments in Charlotte, Raleigh and Fayetteville. https://www.newsobserver.com/ ...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  While Clearview's tech has not yet led to an arrest based on a false ID, we found three examples where its software led to false positive matches, something the company previously claimed it does not do. Those false positives all involved faces of color. https://www.buzzfeednews.…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  The city of Alameda, CA voted to ban facial recognition in December 2019. According to the data, Alameda police officers continued to run Clearview searches *after* that vote. Look at the response here from an Alameda city council member. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https:/…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Clearview has claimed it has incredible accuracy but many police officers has trouble with the software or said it simply doesn't work under certain conditions. These are their own words. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  The data lists 31 public colleges and universities where people used or tried Clearview. There were also two high schools and a Texas school district, though it's unclear if Clearview has been used on minors. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Five organizations including the LAPD and the California Department of Justice found their employees were using Clearview after we asked them about it and subsequently moved to ban or block the software. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  One of the biggest things we found is that Clearview's offering of free trials led to cops using the software without higher ups knowing. 69 agencies initially denied using Clearview to us, before they went back and found employees who had. https://t.co/htkKCD5bT0 https://t.co/2l…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Of the 1,803 entities listed in the data as having run at least one search with Clearview AI by Feb. 2020, 335 orgs confirmed to BuzzFeed News that they had used or tried the facial recognition software. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  As part of the story, BuzzFeed News published a table allowing people based in the US to search if local cops or government agencies in their hometowns have use Clearview AI's facial recognition technology. You can search for your police department here: https://www.buzzfeednews.…