and it's important emphasise that clearview ai's technology was not used in this case. uestion — how accurate is facial recognition technology? clearview will often say that it's almost 100% accurate, but that's on mugshot, not photos taken outside like cctv or body—cam footage. so, we thought we'd put it to the test. we took a range of different photos to see whether clearview could find me. we took some pictures, sort of, like, progressively more and more difficult. so we have, like — there is one of me with glasses on, one of me with a mask on, looking at the camera. sometimes blurry ones work, sometimes they don't, it's tricky. but we'll give it a try. the algorithm found me in some of the shots, but not in others. none of me wearing a mask were found. when they are higher quality, they have a higher chance of making a hit. so the accuracy depends on the quality of the picture? that's why we have that warning when we say this is a lower quality image, so take extra care when taking a look at the results. a trained investigator would be able to see this result, get mo

the facial recognition technology that andrew's lawyers used is new york—based clearview ai.d over and over again for scraping billions of users' photos in countries including the uk, greece, italy and france. clearview is perhaps the most famous and controversial facial recognition system in the world. critics say a controversial start—up poses a new and profound threat to everyone's privacy. a company called clearview ai has the largest known facial. recognition databasel of images in the us — larger than the fbi's. wow. does it work? yeah, it works. i'm looking over at newjersey. plays guitar the company is run by this man, hoan ton—that. he's the eccentric founder of clearview ai — a privately owned company that promises the most comprehensive image search solutions in the world. i haven't played that for like a few years, too! i want to find out how many pictures the system could find of me. take a selfie. 0k. take any face you want. wow, and instantly, yeah, thatjust comes up. as you scroll down, there will be photos that are less similar, or if you see a plus one... th