The specific Army unit that purchased Clearview is the 502nd Military Police Battalion Criminal Intelligence Section, stationed at the Fort Campbell military base, which is on the border between Clarksville, Tennessee, and Hopkinsville, Kentucky. One Gainesville, Florida, police officer advised another officer to keep Clearview use out of official police case reports, as reported by BuzzFeed News. "If they're arrested and prosecuted, are they learning that Clearview's technology was used to identify them?"
"To the extent that this federal agency is using Clearview and then making referrals to state and local law-enforcement agencies for arrests and prosecutions, that also raises serious questions about what those defendants are told," Wessler said. Nate Wessler - a staff attorney for the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the ACLU, which is suing Clearview AI for violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act - told Insider that he's concerned about the Army's Clearview use flying under the radar. Although the discount lasts five years, the contract has to be renewed each year, and this one is set to expire next month. The Army paid for 15 Clearview licenses in total.
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The contract, signed in September 2020, shows that the Army gets a discounted rate of Clearview's services for five years at $15,000 - meaning it can pay $1,000 per license that normally costs $2,000. Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and Mijente have filed lawsuits against Clearview, accusing it of violating Illinois and California state law by downloading people's photos and putting them in its database. The company has been publicly accused by Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social-media companies of violating their terms of services by scraping images and videos.
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In July, Clearview raised $30 million in a Series B funding round the investors were not identified in the funding announcement.
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It claims to have scraped 3 billion photos from the internet and has given free trials of its service to thousands of police officers, and previously to private companies like Macy's and the NBA. The documents detail how Clearview AI, which uses billions of images downloaded from social media to identify people using facial recognition, is capable of wooing high-level customers within the US government, including the US Defense Department.Ĭlearview is a facial-recognition company with one main function: taking a searched face and matching it to other faces using pictures from sites like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. The contract, obtained with other documents by Insider via public-records request, shows the US military awarding a discounted contract for Clearview to work with the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, which investigates serious crimes that could involve active service members or civilian workers for the Army. The US Army has a contract with Clearview AI, according to documents that reveal the controversial facial-recognition startup making bold claims to the military about capabilities such as "criminal network discovery" and "force protection and area security." The Army's CID, which investigates felony offenses, signed the contract after a free-trial period.The controversial facial-recognition company gave the Army a discount price of $1,000 per license.Clearview AI signed a contract with the Army's CID unit, according to documents Insider obtained.
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