Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company, will no longer sell its software to private companies. The company agreed to this provision as part of a larger settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois.
“This is real vindication of the ability of states to protect people from the worst forms of abusive corporate surveillance,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
