The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it’s on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable,” according to a financial presentation from December obtained by The Washington Post. <div class="teaser-content"><section> <div class=""> <p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text">Those images — equivalent to 14 photos for each of the 7 billion people on Earth — would help power a surveillance system that has been used for arrests and criminal investigations by thousands of law enforcement and government agencies around the world.</p> </div> </section></div> <div class="remainder-content"><section> <div class=""> <p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" data-el="text">And the company wants to expand beyond scanning faces for the police, saying in the presentation that it could monitor “gig economy” workers and is researching a number of new technologies that could identify someone based on how they walk, detect their location from a photo or scan their fingerprints from afar.</p> </div> </section></div> Source: <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/16/clearview-expansion-facial-recognition/">Clearview AI predicts 100 billion photos will give it worldwide facial recognition ability - The Washington Post</a></em>