Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In part two of this four-part series on facial recognition, we meet the CEO of the controversial company who tells us our future is filled with face ID— regardless of whether it's regulated or not.


We meet:

Hoan Ton-That, Clearview AI
Alexa Daniels-Shpall, Police Executive Research Forum

Part 1: youtu.be/Fhk6Iqvt16Q
Part 3: youtu.be/_ftGU5FN_ts
Part 4: youtu.be/Ib3b37MnSiU

Credits:

This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, with Tate Ryan-Mosely and Emma Cillekens, with special thanks to Karen Hao and Benji Rosen. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield. Our technical director is Jacob Gorski.