Hacker News Reader

> "Clearview does not maintain any sort of information other than photos,” the company wrote. “To find your information, we cannot search by name or any method other than image."

So a police force buys this product, searches for an image, and just gets more images. Really? What use would that be?

View on HN

I think they also provide the origin of the images (example MySpace), and more often than not, the origin ends up with a definitive identity.

The response report on the author, for instance, clearly identifies her

It links you to the source of the image which is presumably subpoenable for identity information.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com