Clearview AI, a controversial surveillance tech company, settled a nearly two-year-old lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union and other activist groups in Illinois.
a nearly two-year-old lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union and other activist groups in Illinois who alleged the company had violated a state privacy law known as the Biometric Information Privacy Act.announced on Monday, Clearview AI is no longer allowed to sell access to its vast faceprint database to private businesses and other entities anywhere in the country, outside of a few key exceptions.
“This sends a very strong signal to companies that they ignore privacy laws at their own peril. The ‘break it first and figure out the rules later’ path that Clearview started is not tenable.” said , an ACLU lawyer who led the team of plaintiffs in the case. “This, we hope, sends a signal to other states and they can and should follow Illinois’ lead in passing clear biometric laws.”broke the story of how this tiny company had amassed a giant trove of billions of images scraped from across the Internet.
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