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France Has Ordered Clearview AI to Delete its Facial Recognition Data

posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 04 2022, @02:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-so-clear-any-more dept.

upstart writes:

France Has Ordered Clearview AI To Delete Its Facial Recognition Data:

Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been hit with another order by a country's watchdog agency to delete the personal data of its citizens, the latest in a global rebuke by privacy regulators around the world.

On Thursday, France's Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) said Clearview had breached Europe's overarching data protection law, known as GDPR. It gave the company two months to delete the personal information it had collected and stop "unlawful processing" of the data.

The order comes after similar decisions from the UK and Australia in recent weeks. Clearview has built its business by scraping people's photos from the web and social media and indexing them in a vast facial recognition database.

The crackdown follows a series of BuzzFeed News investigations revealing widespread and sometimes unsanctioned use of the company's facial recognition software around the world. In August, BuzzFeed News reported that France's Ministry of the Interior is listed as having run more than 400 searches on Clearview, according to the facial recognition company's internal data. Despite the records, a spokesperson for the agency at the time said it had no information on Clearview.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Tuesday January 04 2022, @03:45PM (1 child)

    by crafoo (6639) on Tuesday January 04 2022, @03:45PM (#1209808)

    The power and control this type of technology gives the ruling class is just far too useful and attractive. It will happen. It will be ubiquitous. Struggle and fight it a little bit, I guess. They seem to enjoy it when you do that.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 04 2022, @08:29PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 04 2022, @08:29PM (#1209895) Journal

    I wonder if this could occur if the US had not first created a global computer network.

    The social media web sites had to be a godsend.

    Nevermind smart phones. Tracking devices people willingly carry on their person. Equipped with mics and cameras, which people use willingly and frequently.

    See above where I replied to Runaway with a message that includes a link to how many cameras several different countries have per 100 individuals.

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