'By requiring Clearview to comply with Illinois' pathbreaking biometric privacy law... across the country, this settlement demonstrates that strong privacy laws can provide real protections against abuse,' said ACLU's NateWessler.
"This settlement is a big win for the most vulnerable people in Illinois,"Linda Xóchitl Tortolero, president and CEO of the Chicago-based nonprofit Mujeres Latinas en Acción, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
Under the settlement, Clearview will also maintain an opt-out request on its website for Illinoisans, end its free trials for individual police officers, and continue its efforts to remove photographs that were taken in or uploaded from the state.In a key exception, Clearview will still be able to provide its database to U.S. banks and financial institutions under a carve-out in the Illinois law.
Floyd Abrams, an attorney for Clearview, said the company was"pleased to put this litigation behind it." "There is a battle being fought in courtrooms and statehouses across the country about who is going to control biometrics—Big Tech or the people being tracked by them—and this represents one of the biggest victories for consumers to date," he said.
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