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AI tools central to FBI counterterrorism efforts, US privacy board says

By Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo ( November 21, 2025, 23:49 GMT | Insight) -- Controversial artificial intelligence tools including Clearview AI facial recognition have become key tools for the FBI, the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said in a report that discloses the agency’s use of commercially available data for the first time. While PCLOB found the FBI doesn't use real-time location data that's available from wireless carriers, digital rights groups said the report raises significant privacy concerns about the government's access to information from data brokers and other commercial sources.Artificial intelligence, including controversial facial-recognition company Clearview AI, has become key to the FBI’s use of open-source data to fight terrorism, a US privacy oversight board said in a report that discloses the practices for the first time....

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