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ARTICLE · 03 NOVEMBER 2023

Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI Overturns Data Privacy Fine

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Clearview AI is a company which enables its users to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular image and face.

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Jose Saras
Jose Saras

Facial Recognition firm Clearview AI overturns data privacy fine

Background

Clearview AI (the "Company") is a company which enables its users to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular image and face.

As we previously reported, in 2021 the Information Commissioner's Office (the "ICO") announced its provisional notice of intent to impose a fine on Clearview AI. Additionally, the ICO had also issued a preliminary enforcement notice requiring Clearview AI to cease further processing of the personal data of data subjects in the UK and delete the data it currently holds.

In 2022, the ICO fined the Company £7.5 million for unlawfully storing facial images (the "Fine"). The Fine followed alleged serious breaches of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 by the Company with its biometric data collection and facial recognition app. The ICO claimed that Clearview AI was processing its database of more than

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