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[{$pagename}]  is an [American] technology company that provides [Facial recognition] [software], primarily for [law enforcement agencies|Law Enforcement Agency]. 


[{$pagename}] has developed technology that can match faces to a database of more than three [billion] images scraped from the [Internet], including [Social network] applications.

[{$pagename}] in January [2020|Year 2020], [Twitter] sent a cease and desist letter and requested the deletion of all collected [data]. This was followed by similar actions by YouTube (via [Google]) and [Facebook] in February. The company claims to have a [First Amendment|Amendment I] right to [public] information and has compared its practices to the Google.com search engine.

[{$pagename}] sells access to its database to more than 600 [law enforcement agencies|Law Enforcement Agency] in [North America].


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* [#1] - [Clearview_AI|Wikipedia:Clearview_AI|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2020-02-27