Clearview AI Lawyer Tor Ekeland Says Your Face Is Public Property

Clearview is the newest company in the surveillance space we love to hate. The app, an “after-the-fact research tool,” allows thousands of government and corporate agencies to match photos of suspected criminals against a catalogue of 3 billion images culled from the internet. A New York Times report found more than 600 police agencies have started using Clearview last year, and Buzzfeed expanded that list to over 2,000 clients, including firms like Macy’s and Walmart, as well as organizations like Interpol. “Clearview is not a surveillance system and is not built like one,” according to the company website, which claims the firm only scrapes images from public...