clearview ai has created a database helpful for police investigations.however, it appears no one knows what's in the database. clearview ai complies with all applicable law and its conduct is fully protected by the first amendment, its attorney told abc7 news in a statement. clearview ai would not be an interview, but its founder addressed privacy in an interview last year. >> i can understand people having concerns around privacy. so the first part to remember, it's only publicly available information. we're not just making technology for its own sake. the reason and the purpose we found is to really help law enforcement solve crimes. >> reporter: a major concern is whether the information harvested from social media and other sources is accurate. law fellow at santa clara university cited criticism of clearview ai's technology. >> there were false positives, and this is serious ramifications for people especially if this is used in the law enforcement context. >> reporter: the suit seeks to stop clearview ai from collecting the data without consent. th

clearview ai has created a database helpful for police investigations. however, it appears no one knows what's in the database. clearview ai complies with all applicable law and its conduct is fully protected by the first amendment, its attorney told abc7 news in a statement. clearview ai would not be an interview, but its founder addressed privacy in an interview last year. >> i can understand people having concerns around privacy. so the first part to remember, it's only publicly available information. we're not just making technology for its own sake. the reason and the purpose we found is to really help law enforcement solve crimes. >> reporter: a major concern is whether the information harvested from social media and other sources is accurate. law fellow at santa clara university cited criticism of clearview ai's technology. > there were false positives, and this is serious ramifications for people especially if this is used in the law enforcement context. >> reporter: the suit seeks to stop clearview ai from collecting the data without consent. th

clearview ai uses so-called scraping technology.collects billions of online images for data base which private and government agencies can tap into for a fee. local immigrants rights groups claim the technology is used without consent and violate's people's rights. the suit claims racial bias because it misidentifies people of color. clearview says its software complies with the law and protected by the first amendment. the ceo says independent studies show no racial bias. >>> no carryover for california ical edd system which experienced a shutdown yesterday for about an hour. all systems crashed included unemployment assistance. >>> we've got new details an on the happiest place on earth. just got happier news. disneyland theme parks will reopen next month. iable i'm saying that. "l.a. times" reporting disney will recall 10,000 california employees, training them on the new covid protocols. disney's ceo is planning to reopen disneyland and california adventure in late april and cruise ships in the fall, parks capped at 15% for now

companies like facebook but there are some consequences there are some teeth there was another company clearview which also does facial software recognition and they face lawsuits out of illinois to the point where they tried to get it moved out of state court were unsuccessful so they just quit doing business in illinois altogether but you know that's just one state among many others so these tech companies are still sort of hopping from state to state if you will find in the best laws as to what they do you know as law of the state lawmakers you know try to rein in big tech how concerned should companies like facebook and google be if more states pass laws like this you know it's interesting because i think this is a landmark law illinois is proving the got some teeth that they can make an impact but is it really going to change the business practices of big tech that may take a comprehensive law maybe federal law you know we saw some legislators both in states and in federal court trying to move towards antitrust legislation whether it's privacy invasion over a number of reasons facial recogn