![]() ![]() The breaches are severe, as the ICO notes in its press release: It’s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in Australia, France, and Italy. The ICO also fined Clearview £7.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK’s data protection laws. ![]() Here’s James Vincent with the details for The Verge.Ĭontroversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The threat is now a reality, although the ask appears to have decreased a bit. This threat arrived 18 months after Clearview started doing business in the UK, offering its services to law enforcement, private equity firms, the Ministry of Defence, and (oddly) a charity headed by author J.K. The reason? The same as everywhere else: privacy law violations. Roughly about the same time as the French rejection, UK regulators threatened Clearview with a $23 million fine. Four months later, it was Italy telling the company to leave the country and attaching a $21 million fine to its demand. France did the same thing one month later, citing violations of the GDPR. Nine months later, it was ejected by Australia (another UK subcontractor), again for violating privacy laws. ![]() It booted Clearview from the country last February, saying its web-scraping habits violated local laws. Canada may not be Europe but it still is subservient to the United Kingdom. That has resulted in a string of Eurocentric losses for Clearview. It scrapes publicly available websites of any photos and personal data it can and sells access to this database and its facial recognition AI to pretty much anyone who wants it. Clearview doesn’t ask for anyone’s consent. Online privacy laws are far more restrictive on the other side of the pond and Clearview’s business model will always be in violation of those laws.Įuropean laws require companies to obtain some sort of consent from the people whose data they gather. Things are not going to get better for it. Clearview may as well exit Europe entirely. ![]()
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