CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
Summary
WIRED reports that CBP will pay $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI's face recognition tool, enabling intelligence units to compare photos against billions of scraped images for tactical targeting. The contract raises privacy and civil liberties concerns, includes questions about data retention and citizen searches, and occurs amidst regulatory scrutiny and mixed test results from NIST on face recognition accuracy.