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Comment: Clearview AI survives 2023 legal challenges in US to fight on against facial-recognition claims

By Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes ( December 22, 2023, 15:00 GMT | Comment) -- Clearview AI, the controversial startup that has assembled an unprecedented facial-recognition database of tens of billions of facial templates, has taken on a series of legal challenges in the US and won them — at least for now. Winning a key court ruling in Vermont this week, Clearview has been able to parlay a settlement it reached with the American Civil Liberties Union in 2022, in which it agreed to stop selling its facial-recognition services to retailers and other private-sector companies to focus on law-enforcement uses, into a legal stalemate against its US privacy challenges.Clearview AI, the subject of a bestselling book this year that said the US facial-recognition startup could “end privacy as we know it,” is emerging from a bout of legal challenges in 2023 with its US business model bruised, but intact....

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