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Clearview AI use reaches 1,803 US public agencies

Reporting based on leaked records and agency outreach found that more than 7,000 people at 1,803 publicly funded US agencies used or tested Clearview AI, generating nearly 340,000 facial-recognition searches, often without supervisors or the public knowing.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM52confidence 88/100

Why it moved the index

The records document broad real-world diffusion of facial recognition across law enforcement and other public bodies, including unsupervised use. The scale and consequential surveillance nexus support material misuse risk; confidence remains below primary because the underlying dataset was leaked and some agencies disputed or could not verify use.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 52 · confidence 88

    New April 2021 surveillance-deployment evidence absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Clearview AI use reaches 1,803 US public agencies” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 52 and confidence 88 out of 100 in the misuse and incidents category.

  2. The DoomBench assessment of “Clearview AI use reaches 1,803 US public agencies” is based on reporting from Engadget and records the editorial rationale, source quality, attribution, and revision history.

  3. DoomBench summarizes “Clearview AI use reaches 1,803 US public agencies” as follows: Reporting based on leaked records and agency outreach found that more than 7,000 people at 1,803 publicly funded US agencies used or tested Clearview...

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