Tennessee Highway Patrol are in discussions with Clearview AI, a facial recognition software provider that can identify suspects using a massive database of online photos.
Clearview AI’s software is based on billions of publicly-available photos of people found online, from social media profiles to news websites. It indexes the shapes and unique features of people’s faces found in the photos. Paid users can then upload photos of a face and have the software search for online matches with the hopes of discovering a person’s identity.
The ability to identify people has been especially attractive to law enforcement agencies ranging from federal immigration forces to local county sheriffs, who have quickly adopted the technology…