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Clearview AI - the web-scraping, faceprint-amassing biometrics company that's being sued over collecting biometrics without informed consent - says it's no longer going to sell access to its program to a) private entities or b) any entity whatsoever that's located in Illinois. Clearview AI founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That has claimed that the results are 99.6% accurate.

Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that's gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and any other publicly accessible nook and cranny it can find, has lost its entire list of clients to hackers - including details about its many law enforcement clients. Clearview, which has sold access to its gargantuan faceprint database to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, first came to the public's attention in January when the New York Times ran a front-page article suggesting that the "Secretive company [] might end privacy as we know it."

The New York Times has a long story about Clearview AI, a small company that scrapes identified photos of people from pretty much everywhere, and then uses unstated magical AI technology to identify people in other photos. His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app.