Your Face Belongs To Border Patrol
Border Patrol just signed a contract with Clearview AI, the most controversial facial recognition company on the planet.
Clearview built its database by scraping over 60 billion photos from the open internet.
Your Instagram, your LinkedIn, your dating profile, photos you posted years ago and forgot about, photos you're in the background of and didn't even know about.
Now, according to a new Wired report, Border Patrol Intelligence Units will use it for what the contract calls ""tactical targeting” and “strategic counter-network analysis.""
What's missing from the contract is whether searches can include US citizens, what types of photos agents can upload, and how long your face stays in the system.
NIST tested Clearview AI alongside other vendors and found error rates above 20% on real-world photos. The blurry, low-light kind agents actually capture in the field.
When agents search for someone who isn't in the database, the system doesn't say ""no match,"" it still returns a face and every single one of them is the wrong person.
Every photo you've ever appeared in online is now in a federal surveillance database and they didn't ask.