A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a “perpetual police line-up,” even for people who haven’t done anything wrong.

Source: Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a ‘perpetual police line-up’

The photos were stolen without users knowledge or permission.

We are rapidly entering a dystopian police state with massive government censorship programs, massive online spying done by governments and everyone, round the clock surveillance in public – and complete loss of trust in government and institutions.

Once Clearview AI stole the photos, there is no possible way to have your data deleted from their database.