Clearview AI is a privately-owned facial recognition database containing more than 40 billion images from social media and other websites. It’s impossible to know how quickly Bobby James Harris would have been brought to justice without the assistance of facial recognition, a controversial technology that a growing number of state and federal law enforcement agencies are using to help solve crimes. In 2020, the ACLU sued ClearView AI in Illinois, accusing the company of violating that state’s biometric information privacy law “on an unprecedented scale”