![]() Given the high number of UK internet and social media users, Clearview AI Inc’s database was likely to include a substantial amount of data from UK residents, which has been gathered without their knowledge.Īlthough Clearview AI does not have any presence in the UK and no longer offers its services to UK organisations, the company has customers in other countries and was found to still be using the personal data of UK residents. The Data Subjects (the individuals whose personal data was being processed) were not informed that their images were being collected or used in this way. ![]() The app then provides a list of images that have similar characteristics to the photo provided by the customer, with a link to the websites from where the images came from.Īlthough Clearview AI’s services have primarily been used by law enforcement agencies, the tool is also utilised for intelligence purposes, with Clearview AI offering its services to the Government of Ukraine to assist in the identification of combatants and deceased on both sides of the conflict.Īfter an investigation, it was determined that Clearview AI Inc collected more than 20 billion images of people’s faces and data from publicly available information on the internet and social media platforms all over the world to create an online database. Clearview’s service allows customers, including government and public entities such as the police, to upload an image of a person to the Clearview AI app, which is then checked for a match against all the images contained in Clearview AI’s database. This raises important questions about both the jurisdiction of the UK GDPR and the practical implications of extra-territorial enforcement.Ĭlearview AI is an American company headquartered in New York that boasts one of the world’s largest databases of people’s faces. ![]() The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a US company, Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition. ![]()
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