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Comment: Clearview AI has reached 'turning point' with US legal challenges, CEO says, but won't return to EU, UK

By Mike Swift ( January 24, 2024, 22:47 GMT | Comment) -- Even as it surpasses a database of 40 billion faces to train its algorithms, the founder and chief executive of Clearview AI told MLex it isn't going back to doing business in Europe, the UK, Canada or Australia, where the controversial facial-recognition startup has faced regulatory opposition. Hoan Ton-That said in the US, however, Clearview has put many of its most thorny legal problems behind it, and that "it's still just really the beginning for us as a company."The controversial US facial-recognition startup, which has spent much of the last three years in court battles in the US and in a face-off with regulators in the EU, UK, Canada, and Australia, is in a good place in terms of regulation, having resolved most of its legal troubles in its home country and built a roster of US law enforcement customers, its founder and chief executive told MLex....

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