“This is a surveillance nightmare for all of us, but it’s the biggest nightmare for immigrants, people of color, and everyone who’s already a target for law enforcement.” “Imagine thousands of police officers and ICE agents across the country with the ability to instantaneously know your name and job, to see what you’ve posted online, to see every public photo of you on the internet,” said Jacinta Gonzalez, a senior campaign organizer at Mijente. “While I can leave my cellphone at home I can leave my computer at home if I wanted to,” he said, “one of the things that I can’t really leave at home is my face.”Ĭlearview AI was “circumventing the will of a lot of people” in the Bay Area cities that banned or limited facial-recognition use, he said.Įnhancing law enforcement’s ability to instantaneously identify and track individuals is potentially chilling, the plaintiffs argue, and could inhibit the members of their groups or Californians broadly from exercising their constitutional right to protest. Unlike other uses of personal information, facial recognition poses a unique danger, said Steven Renderos, executive director of MediaJustice and one of the individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Yet the push comes at a time when consumer expectations of privacy are low, as many have come to see the use and sale of personal information by companies such as Google and Facebook as an inevitability of the digital age. to limit the use of facial recognition by local law enforcement in 2019. Bay Area cities - including San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda - have led that charge and were among the first in the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, is part of a growing effort to restrict the use of facial-recognition technology. This is especially consequential, the plaintiffs argue, for proponents of immigration or police reform, whose political speech may be critical of law enforcement and who may be members of communities that have been historically over-policed and targeted by surveillance tactics.Ĭlearview AI enhances law enforcement agencies’ efforts to monitor these activists, as well as immigrants, people of color and those perceived as “dissidents,” such as Black Lives Matter activists, and can potentially discourage their engagement in protected political speech as a result, the plaintiffs say. The plaintiffs - four individual civil liberties activists and the groups Mijente and NorCal Resist - allege Clearview AI “engages in the widespread collection of California residents’ images and biometric information without notice or consent.” It also has caught the attention of civil liberties advocates and activists, who allege in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the company’s automatic scraping of their images and its extraction of their unique biometric information violate privacy and chill protected political speech and activity. This technology appeals to law enforcement agencies across the country, which can use it in real time to help determine people’s identities. The New York company uses algorithms to map the pictures it stockpiles, determining, for example, the distance between an individual’s eyes to construct a “faceprint.” It’s bigger than any other known facial-recognition database in the U.S., including the FBI’s.
Clearview AI has amassed a database of more than 3 billion photos of individuals by scraping sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Venmo.
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