In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to for police and security professionals. Now the company is experimenting with trawling the web again, this time using to potentially help law enforcement fill in the person behind the name—who they are, who they know, where they live, and what they’ve left behind online.
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