How to opt out of AI training: Clearview AI
Direct links to your Clearview AI AI opt-out
Three different forms sit behind the buttons. Which one you want depends on your state.
- Illinois opt-out - The only form on the site that says opt out. Illinois only. Blocks your images from future search results.
- California requests - Access, delete, do not sell or share, correct, limit use of sensitive information. California only.
- Everyone else on the list - One shared form behind every button for Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Utah and Virginia.
- Appeal a refusal - For a denied request. Offered to all of those states except Utah.
Clearview AI is not a service you signed up for. It collects photographs from the public web, turns faces into biometric templates, and sells searching against them to police forces. No login, no settings, no switch. There is a page of buttons, and what they can do for you depends on your state.
How to find your Clearview AI AI opt-out manually
1. Find your state
Everything starts at Clearview's privacy and requests page, one section per state. The options differ: California gets five, Utah gets three, Illinois gets one nobody else does.
2. Illinois has the only real opt-out
Under the state's biometric law, Clearview provides an automated opt-out form.
Read what it does. Clearview says it blocks the Illinois information from being returned by future searches, and retains it as long as legal preservation obligations require. Blocked is not deleted.
3. California
Five buttons, all leading to one form: access, delete, do not sell or share, correct, and limit use of sensitive personal information. Delete is the one that asks them to stop holding it.
4. The other eleven states share one form
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Utah and Virginia. Their buttons are labelled differently and every one goes to the same form. What matters is what you write on it, not which button you pressed.
5. If they say no
Ten of those states get an appeal form.
The DMCA button is not for you
Clearview states only copyright holders or their agents may file, and that if you are depicted in a photograph you might not be the copyright holder.
Every request identifies you to a facial recognition company. That is the trade.