Comment by Hoan Ton-That

Clearview AI is a facial recognition search engine, used by over 3,100 law enforcement agencies around the United States. It works just like Google, but instead of searching words, it searches photos of faces. All the data inside Clearview AI is publicly available, as it is with Google. [...] Any ban on facial recognition will be devastating for victims of child rape and human trafficking. Likewise, limiting the dataset law enforcement can use to DMV photos or mugshots will prevent victims of child exploitation from being rescued, as children are not in DMV databases. It would have also let Andres Viola continue to abuse that 6-year-old girl, as he is an Argentine citizen, and didn’t appear in any existing law enforcement database. Finally, banning facial recognition would mean that the perpetrators of the crimes on January 6th could have evaded law enforcement.