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The Ethics of Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Software In July 2025, Angella Lipps was tracked down by the Tennessee police in her home and arrested for a bank fraud she supposedly committed in Fargo, hundreds of miles away. She then spent over five months in prison for a crime she in fact did not commit. The charges were officially dismissed on December 23, 2025. This was due to her bank records showing that she could not have possibly been in Fargo at the time of the fraud. The reasoning for this false arrest was Clearview AI, which has a database of over 70 billion faces scraped from the internet without anyone’s permission. This is just the most recent and famous case, but Lipps isn’t the only case. So far, eight other individuals have been wrongfully arrested because of errors in the Clearview AI facial recognition software. Hoan Ton-That, Clearview AI’s founder, is mostly responsible for this due to his decision to scrape the entire internet, rather than building something...