Clearview AI has scraped 10 billion photos from the web

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Clearview AI has scraped 10 billion photos from the web
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Clearview AI has scraped 10 billion photos from the web

Clearview appears to have ignored demands from social media companies to stop taking images from their platforms

Clearview AI has scraped over 10 billion photographs from people's social media profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other platforms for its controversial facial-recognition tool. Clearv...

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