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Macy’s Inc was targeted in one of the first lawsuits against users of the controversial facial-recognition software made by startup Clearview AI.
An Illinois woman filed a proposed class action against Macy’s in federal court in Chicago, alleging the department store chain violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act by using Clearview software to identify shoppers from security-camera footage.
Clearview’s software allows users to try to match a face against a database of images it scrapes from the internet, including sites like YouTube and Facebook.
Clearview, which is not named in Carmine’s suit, has been hit with a number of lawsuits over the technology, including one by the American Civil Liberties Union.