Clearview AI gave accounts to ex Trump staffer, GOPers, Holocaust denier

Clearview AI said its facial recognition tool was only for law enforcement, but Buzzfeed News reports they gave accounts to former Trump staffer Jason Miller, as well as various Republican political operatives and a figure known to be a Holocaust denier.

CEO Hoan Ton-That denies Buzzfeed's reporting, which shows access was provided to political connections, potential investors, and entities designated as Friend.

From Buzzfeed:

A BuzzFeed News review of the publicly available code for Clearviews web app found that the company had created a list of company type designations including Government, Bank, and Investor for entities that had access to its tool. Among those 12 labels was one for Friend. A security researcher on Twitter also discovered the same label in an independent review of the code.

On a list of more than 2,200 entities seen by BuzzFeed News, Clearview apparently designated the company type of a handful of organizations as Friend. Among them was SHW Partners LLC, a company founded by Jason Miller, a former Trump campaign senior communications official and one-time nominee for White House communications director.

Miller, who cohosts a podcast with Trumps former chief strategist Steve Bannon, declined to comment on Clearview or why his firm was listed as having access to the companys facial recognition software. Clearviews records show that an account tied to SHW had run nearly 20 searches, some as recently as October.

BuzzFeed News previously revealed that Clearviews data listed the offices of four Republican members of Congress including Rep.