Grand Theft America / Receipt power-2025-08-11-060
ICE lines up Clearview's 50 billion face database on a no-bid contract
ICE prepares a sole-source facial-recognition deal with Clearview AI, justifying the no-bid award by citing the company's “unique proprietary capabilities.” The contract describes Clearview's database as holding 50+ billion facial images and as “the largest and most comprehensive facial recognition database available.”
What happened
ICE prepares a sole-source facial-recognition deal with Clearview AI, justifying the no-bid award by citing the company's “unique proprietary capabilities.” The contract describes Clearview's database as holding 50+ billion facial images and as “the largest and most comprehensive facial recognition database available.”
Why it matters
Linking identity, biometric and commercial data expands the government's ability to identify, monitor and act against people at scale. It is tracked here under “Expand the biometric and identity stack”; the classification describes the documented institutional risk, not a claim about motive.
Receipt details
- Phase 1
- Build a surveillance machine
- Expand the biometric and identity stack
