Facial Recognition Surveillance: Your Face Belongs to Us
The definitive investigation into Clearview AI's 10-billion-image facial recognition database sold to law enforcement, private investigators, and corporations — and why adversarial pattern clothing and IR-defeating gear are now essential protest and civil liberties equipment.
Key Takeaways
- Years-long investigation into Clearview AI's database and customer list
- Documents cases of misidentification leading to wrongful arrests
- Exposes law enforcement use of unregulated facial recognition tools
- Covers the venture capital and political ecosystem enabling biometric surveillance
- Interviews with wrongly identified individuals and whistleblowers
Facial recognition is the most urgent physical-layer threat to protest participants and activists. Clearview's database can identify anyone who has ever appeared in a publicly indexed photo. Hill's investigation gives you the specific threat model that adversarial pattern clothing, reflective lenses, and IR-flooding gear are designed to defeat.
Read this, then look at what we stock. The connection will be obvious.
Kashmir Hill is a technology reporter at The New York Times who spent years investigating facial recognition companies before the story became mainstream news. She pioneered investigative techniques for exposing companies that wouldn't cooperate with journalists, and her Clearview coverage has been cited in multiple congressional hearings.
Direct countermeasures to the Clearview threat model:
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