Clearview AI hit with penalty for collecting images of people from social media and web to add to global database
The UK’s data watchdog has fined a facial recognition company £7.5m for collecting images of people from social media platforms and the web to add to a global database.
US-based Clearview AI has also been ordered to delete the data of UK residents from its systems by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Clearview has collected more than 20bn images of people’s faces and data from Facebook, other social media companies and from scouring the web.
