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Zut alors! Raclage crapuleux! Clearview AI in 20% more trouble in France
2023-05-15 18:36

CLEARVIEW AI collects photographs from a wide range of websites, including social networks, and sells access to its database of images of people through a search engine in which an individual can be searched using a photograph. Worse still, CNIL castigated Clearview for trying to cling onto the very data it shouldn't have collected in the first place.

Clearview AI image-scraping face recognition service hit with €20m fine in France
2022-10-26 18:50

Clearview AI does not have a legitimate interest in collecting and using this data either, particularly given the intrusive and massive nature of the process, which makes it possible to retrieve the images present on the Internet of several tens of millions of Internet users in France. The seriousness of this breach led the CNIL chair to order Clearview AI to cease, for lack of a legal basis, the collection and use of data from people on French territory, in the context of the operation of the facial recognition software it markets.

Clearview AI gets third €20 million fine for illegal data collection
2022-10-21 14:57

France's data protection authority has fined Clearview AI with €20 million for illegal collection and processing of biometric data belonging to French citizens. Clearview AI received the same fine from Italian and Greek data protection authorities for the same violations in March and July.

Clearview AI face-matching service fined a lot less than expected
2022-05-23 18:01

Face-matching service Clearview AI has only been around for five years, but it has courted plenty of controversy in that time, both inside and outside the courtroom. Not long after the social media scraping brouhaha, Clearview AI suffered a widely-publicised data breach.

Clearview AI fined €20M for collecting Italians’ biometric data
2022-03-09 16:09

The Italian privacy guarantor has imposed a fine of €20,000,000 on Clearview AI for implementing a biometric monitoring network in Italy without acquiring people's consent. Without ever acquiring those people's consent or informing them about the scraping of their biometric data, Clearview AI offered its clients a search service that employed artificial intelligence to match faces with identities and online activity.

Clearview AI face-matching service set to be fined over $20m
2021-11-30 19:13

The UK data protection regulator has announced its intention to issue a fine of £17m to controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. Clearview AI, as you'll know if you've read any of our numerous previous articles about the company, essentially pitches itself as a social network contact finding service with extraordinary reach, even though no one in its immense facial recognition database ever signed up to "Belong" to the "Service". Early in 2020, those behemoths firmly told Clearview AI, "Stop leeching image data from our services."

Clearview AI raises $30M to accelerate growth in image-search technology
2021-07-26 23:15

Clearview AI announced the successful close of a $30 million Series B funding round that now values the company at $130 million. The investment, which includes funds from institutional investors and family offices, will fuel Clearview's continued growth.

Canada Probe Concludes Clearview AI Breached Privacy Laws
2021-02-04 12:43

US facial recognition technology firm Clearview AI illegally conducted mass surveillance in breach of Canadians' privacy rights, Canada's privacy commissioner said Wednesday following an investigation. "What Clearview does is mass surveillance and it is illegal," Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told a teleconference.

Clearview AI facial recogition sued again – this time by ACLU
2020-05-29 14:41

The facial recognition company that everyone - or at least a large chunk of everyone - loves to hate, Clearview AI, is to get yet another day, and perhaps very much longer than that, in a Chicago courtroom. Clearview AI is a new research tool used by law enforcement agencies to identify perpetrators and victims of crimes.

ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
2020-05-29 12:40

The U.S. citizens'-rights watchdog organization has filed suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois against Clearview AI, on behalf of a number of organizations comprised of vulnerable communities-such as survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence and undocumented immigrants-for violating the the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Clearview has been collecting what are called "Faceprints," or unique biometric identifiers similar to someone's fingerprint or DNA profile, and then selling them to "Private companies, police, federal agencies and wealthy individuals, allowing them to secretly track and target whomever they wished using face recognition technology," ACLU Staff Attorney Nathan Freed Wessler wrote in a blog post published Thursday.