{"id":46513,"date":"2021-07-22T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46513"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:48:30","slug":"controversial-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-tool-raises-30-million-in-series-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/controversial-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-tool-raises-30-million-in-series-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Clearview AI facial-recognition tool raises $30 million in Series B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of the Clearview AI facial-recognition tool raised $30 million in a Series B round. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/21\/technology\/clearview-ai-valuation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The investors in Clearview AI were not disclosed. According to the company&#8217;s chief executive Hoan Ton-That, they include \u201cinstitutional and private family offices\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2017, the company has so far raised more than $38 million at a valuation of $130 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, a group of European privacy and digital rights <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/european-privacy-advocates-file-complaints-against-clearview-ai\"> filed legal complaints against Clearview AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden introduced the bill \u201cFourth Amendment Is Not for Sale,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-lawmakers-propose-to-ban-clearview-ai-by-law\"> would prohibit government agencies from purchasing biometric data<\/a> without a court order.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Canadian privacy regulators said that Clearview AI&#8217;s activities<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/clearview-ai-faces-trouble-in-canada-pornhub-biometric-verification-initiative-and-other-ai-news\"> violate local laws<\/a>, collecting citizens&#8217; photographs from the internet without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of the Clearview AI facial-recognition tool raised $30 million in a Series B round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,2171,52],"class_list":["post-46513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-clearview-ai","tag-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46515,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46513\/revisions\/46515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}