Before Clearview — a facial recognition app with a database of billions of photos, scraped from sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn — was used by police, it was a secret plaything of the rich nyti.ms/2xh3YPj
For more than a year before the company became the subject of public scrutiny, the app had been freely used by the company’s investors, clients and friends nyti.ms/2xh3YPj 
Those with Clearview logins used facial recognition at parties, on dates and at business gatherings, giving demonstrations of its power for fun or using it to identify people whose names they didn’t know or couldn’t recall nyti.ms/2xh3YPj
Our earlier reporting on Clearview revealed how the little-known start-up had developed a breakthrough facial recognition technology that was in use by hundreds of law enforcement agencies. Read our January story here. nyti.ms/2Tq0imB
