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reports. Rather than paying cash, the company would provide a 23 percent stake in its company to any Americans in its database. Without the settlement , Clearview could go bankrupt, according to court documents.
If you live in the US and have ever posted a photo of yourself publicly online, you may be part of the class action. The settlement could amount to at least $50 million according to court documents, It still must be approved by a federal judge. Clearview AI, which counts billionaire Peter Thiel as a backer, says it has over 30 billion images in its database. Those can be accessed and cross-referenced by thousands of law enforcement departments including the US FBI and Department of Homeland Security.in Illinois, California, Virginia, New York and elsewhere, which were all brought together as a class action suit in a federal Chicago court.
The relatively small sum divided by the large number of users likely to be in the database means you won't be receiving a windfall. In any case, it would only happen if the company goes public or is acquired, according to the report. Once that occurs, lawyers would take up to 39 percent of the settlement, meaning the final amount could be reduced to about 30 million. If a third of Americans were in the database , each would get about 27 cents.
That does beg the question of whether it would be worth just over a quarter to see one of the creepiest companies of all time to go bankrupt. To cite a small litany of the actions taken against it :in 2020 (Clearview agreed to permanently halt sales of its biometric database to private companies in the US as part of the settlement.
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