Clearview facial recognition searches double, database reaches 50B images

Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

The number of facial recognition searches performed with Clearview AI by law enforcement officials has doubled over the past year, reaching 2 million. The company’s database of facial images for biometric comparison has also grown, reaching 50 billion in total, Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That told Biometric Update in an email.

The database reached 40 billion images in November of last year, and Ton-That told the BBC that the company had been used for one million searches as of last March.

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