{"id":131790,"date":"2021-12-04T17:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/clearview-ai-will-get-a-us-patent-for-its-facial-recognition-tech"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:23:47","slug":"clearview-ai-will-get-a-us-patent-for-its-facial-recognition-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/clearview-ai-will-get-a-us-patent-for-its-facial-recognition-tech","title":{"rendered":"Clearview AI will get a US patent for its facial recognition tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clearview AI<\/a> is about to get formal acknowledgment for its controversial facial recognition technology. Politico<\/em> reports<\/a> Clearview has received a US Patent and Trademark Office \u201cnotice of allowance\u201d indicating officials will approve a filing for its system, which scans faces across public internet data to find people from government lists and security camera footage. The company just has to pay administrative fees to secure the patent.<\/p>\n

In a Politico<\/em> interview, Clearview founder Hoan Ton-That claimed this was the first facial recognition patent involving \u201clarge-scale internet data.\u201d The firm sells its tool to government clients (including law enforcement) hoping to accelerate searches.<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, there\u2019s a concern the USPTO is effectively blessing Clearview\u2019s technology and giving the company a chance to grow despite widespread objections<\/a> to its technology\u2019s very existence. Critics are concerned Clearview is building image databases without targets\u2019 knowledge or permission, and multiple governments (including Australia and the UK) believe the facial recognition violates data laws<\/a>. The tech could theoretically be used to stifle political dissent or, in private use, to stalk other people. That\u2019s not including worries about possible gender and race biases<\/a> for facial recognition as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clearview AI is about to get formal acknowledgment for its controversial facial recognition technology. Politico reports Clearview has received a US Patent and Trademark Office \u201cnotice of allowance\u201d indicating officials will approve a filing for its system, which scans faces across public internet data to find people from government lists and security camera footage. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,1493,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}