U.S. Border Patrol contracts Clearview AI for facial recognition using public photos

U.S. Border Patrol signed a one-year, $225,000 contract with Clearview AI for facial recognition services. The contract allows intelligence units and the National Targeting Center to use Clearview AI's tool, which accesses a database of 60 billion public web images for analysis. Civil liberties groups and lawmakers have opposed facial recognition use by law enforcement, citing concerns about accuracy and privacy.