CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

CBP plans to spend $225,000 for a year of Clearview AI access, extending facial-recognition capabilities to intelligence units for tactical targeting and strategic analysis, despite unclear policies on what images may be uploaded, inclusion of U.S. citizens, and data retention. The move faces legislative and civil liberties scrutiny over pervasive biometric surveillance and Clearview’s web-scraped datasets, while NIST testing highlights high error rates in uncontrolled images and an inherent trade-off between false matches and misses, raising accuracy, privacy, and governance concerns.