Clearview AI fined £7.5 million and told to delete all UK facial recognition data
£7.55 million by the UK's privacy watchdog for illegally scraping the facial images of UK residents from social media and the web. It was also ordered to stop obtaining the data of UK residents and to delete any it has already collected."The company not only enables identification of those people, but effectively monitors their behavior and offers it as a commercial service. That is unacceptable," said UK information commissioner John Edwards in a statement.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office opened a joint investigation with Australia into Clearview AI back in 2020, and issued a against the company late last year. At the time, the office noted that"Clearview AI Inc’s database are likely to include the data of a substantial number of people from the UK and may have been gathered without people’s knowledge from publicly available information online, including social media platforms.
In issuing a final injunction, the ICO noted that globally, the company illegally collected more than 20 billion facial images for its database."Although Clearview AI no longer offers its services to UK organizations, the company has customers in other countries, so the company is still using personal data of UK residents," it said.
Clearview AI sells an app that can be used to upload a photo of someone, then try to identify them by check its database. The data has been used by thousands of public law enforcement agencies, despite the technology being in a legal grey area.
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