USPS Reportedly Uses Clearview AI to Spy on Americans
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is reportedly using the facial recognition technology Clearview AI to spy on American citizens.
According to interviews and documents reviewed by Yahoo News, the use of the technology by the USPS Inspection Service is part of a program that tracks citizens social media activity and shares the information with law enforcement agencies.
Under the Service s Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), analysts use Clearview’s collection of images scraped from public websites to identify unknown targets and report on them to the authorities.
According to Yahoo News, iCOP accesses Clearview’s facial recognition database of over 3 billion images from arrest photos uploaded to social media “to help identify unknown targets in an investigation or locate additional social media accounts for known individuals.”