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Clearview AI
A face-search engine fined more than €100 million across France, Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands — none of it paid. Its co-founder was pushed out as CEO in 2025.
- What it is
- Private
- Backed by
- Peter Thiel was an early backer
- Scale
- Scraped ~50 billion faces from the web · sold to police, the FBI, ICE and DHS
Not yet in Detroit's filings
Detroit hasn’t named Clearview AI in a public surveillance filing — but its tools and data shape the market the city buys in. Here for context.
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