Clearview AI offers its clients a system that works like a search engine for faces - users upload a photo and it finds matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.It then provides links to where matching images appear online.
In March, Clearview’s founder Hoan Ton-That said it had run nearly a million searches for US police, helping them to solve a range of crimes, including murders.
He also revealed its database contained 30 billion images scraped from the internet.
Critics argue that law enforcement’s use of Clearview’s technology puts everyone into a “perpetual police line-up”.
France, Italy and Australia had also taken action against the firm.
Either the article’s image is a not-terribly-good mock-up of the actual facial recognition system doing feature recognition on someone’s face, or said system is identifying the model’s shirt collar as part of her face.