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Federal procurement records showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Clearview AI a $224,000 contract for facial-recognition technology. The funding office was Homeland Security Investigations, and ICE said the service was used in child-exploitation and other cybercrime investigations.
Clearview AI told Canadian privacy authorities that it would cease offering facial-recognition services in Canada and indefinitely suspend its contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, its last remaining Canadian client.
The ACLU and partner organizations sued Clearview AI under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act over its non-consensual faceprint database and surveillance service. The original case later produced a 2022 consent order permanently barring Clearview from providing the database to most private entities nationwide and imposing additional Illinois restrictions.
Contemporaneous reporting documented that Clearview AI licensed a facial-recognition database containing more than three billion scraped images to over 600 US law-enforcement agencies, with weak independent testing and limited public oversight.