Following the onset of the investigations into its data collection practices, Clearview abandoned its public-private partnerships with law enforcement agencies across Canada, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Toronto Police Service. Moreover, the United Kingdom and Australia have launched their own joint probe into the data collection processes operationalized by Clearview, paving the way for possible future denouncements and market pullouts. The United States, with its historic issues regarding police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic racism, should take similar if not more drastic measures.
Social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and other data practitioners have developed a large body of research detailing how big data is collected, analyzed, and used by the carceral state. This includes predictive policing tools that generate racialized feedback loops and social media monitoring that disproportionately targets ethnic and religious minorities.