The rulings bring a two-year collaborative inquiry between the ICO and the Australian Information Commissioner’s Office.
Clearview AI, a face recognition startup, was fined £7.5 million (8.79 million euros) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for violating UK data protection regulations. The corporation has been ordered to stop collecting and utilizing personal information from UK citizens and erase the data from its servers.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) discovered that this corporation neglected to warn consumers in the United Kingdom that it was gathering their photographs from the web and social media to establish a worldwide online database that might be used for face recognition. The corporation also didn’t have a legal purpose for collecting people’s data and didn’t follow the General Data Protection Regulation’s data protection rules for biometric data.
The watchdog said their database is “likely to include a large quantity of data” from UK people.
Clearview AI fraud
Clearview AI has amassed a database of more than 20 billion photographs of people from all around the globe, including the UK. The corporation not only identifies those individuals but also successfully monitors their behaviour and sells it as a service. To safeguard citizens in the United Kingdom, we fined the corporation and issued an enforcement notice.
The ICO worked with Australian privacy watchdogs to investigate how the firm used people’s photos and biometric data for facial recognition.
Clearview agreement
Clearview AI agreed earlier this month in a landmark deal to stop selling its database to private organizations and people in the United States and stop making it available to the Illinois state government and local police departments for the next five years. Outside of Illinois, the New York-based firm continues to provide its services to other law enforcement and federal agencies and government contractors.
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