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Clearview AI, facial recognition co w/3billion photos (used by ICE, police, FBI) was created by Cam-Hoan Ton-That with far-right extremists Charles Chuck Johnson, Jeff Giesea, Mike Cernovich, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer, Pax Dickson & others by @lukeobrien
huffpost.com/entry/clearvie…
Earlier reporting by @RMac18 @carolineha_ @_loganmcdonald

Secret Users Of Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Dragnet Included A Former Trump Staffer, A Troll, And Conservative Think Tanks

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Trump supporter and founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel looms large in this story and was an early funder of Clearview

Clearview was originally called Smartcheckr - a founder Richard Schwartz, had been a top aide to Rudy Giuliani when he was NYC mayor

huffpost.com/entry/clearvie…
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A stunning story from 2018

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Christopher Parris of Atlanta Georgia was just arrested for attempting to defraud the VA in a $750 million COVID-19 scam

Someone named Christopher Parris in Atlanta Georgia was charged in January 2020 in a $115,500,000 ponzi scheme

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