Hoan Ton-That started out creating quirky apps, one let users slap Donald Trump’s signature hair onto selfies, another helped share videos through instant messenger. But those digital oddities were just the prelude to something far more consequential and controversial.
In 2017, the Australian coder-turned-entrepreneur quietly co-founded Clearview AI, a company whose facial recognition software would soon redraw the lines of privacy and surveillance in the digital age. Clearview’s technology lets users upload a photo of any person and instantly uncover publicly available images of that individual scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and millions of websites along with links to their online profiles.
What makes Clearview’s tool so potent is the scale. With a claimed database of
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