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# Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
- URL: https://werd.io/clearview-ai-scraped-30-billion-images-from-facebook-and-other/
- Published: 2023-04-04T01:13:19.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-04T01:13:19.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

“A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company's CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a "perpetual police line-up," even for people who haven't done anything wrong.” [#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4)\]