A company with a huge database of facial images informed its law enforcement customers this week that it suffered a data breach.
New York-based Clearview AI scrapes the Web for publicly available images of people’s faces to compile a database of billions of images, then sells access to law enforcement agencies. It disclosed Wednesday to its law enforcement customers that an “intruder gained unauthorized access” to its customer list. The intruder also obtained user accounts and number of searches, according to a story in The Daily Beast.
