by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That admitted that the company scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook and other social media platforms and used them in its massive facial recognition database accessible by law enforcement agencies across the U.S. Critics call the company’s database a “perpetual police lineup.”

This is an example of the growing cooperation between private companies and government agencies in the ever-growing U.S. surveillance state.