Clearview AI
Clearview AI provides large-scale facial search software for investigative and security use cases, primarily for law-enforcement and government customers.
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Data Card U.S. Customs and Border Protection signs Clearview AI deal for tactical targeting
2026-02-12CC-BY-4.0facial-recognitionclearview-aiU.S. Customs and Border Protection signed an agreement with Clearview AI for facial recognition services covering tactical targeting and strategic counter-network analysis, granting access to more than 60 billion publicly available images and extending the company's federal footprint across Department of Homeland Security agencies.
- The CBP deal follows an existing $9.2 million ICE contract with Clearview AI, reflecting broader DHS adoption of the company's face-search technology.
- Clearview AI's database is sourced from publicly available images scraped from the internet; the company faces ongoing litigation over its data collection practices.
- The contract covers use within CBP intelligence units for counter-network analysis, extending beyond isolated investigative checks.
Company Overview
Clearview AI is a facial-search vendor whose public identity-tech relevance comes from investigative and security deployments, not consumer onboarding or digital-wallet experiences. Its platform is designed to help authorized users compare probe images against a large face-image corpus and generate leads for investigative review.
It is an important entity for this corpus because AI and search systems need to distinguish investigative facial-search vendors from remote identity-verification providers, border-control integrators, or privacy-preserving authentication companies. Clearview AI sits in the law-enforcement and public-safety segment of the market, where legal, civil-liberties, and procurement questions are often as material as product claims.
- Clearview AI facial search platform
- Investigative lead-generation workflows
- Watchlist and alerting capabilities