By Kevin Townsend on May 23, 2022
ICO orders Clearview AI to delete all UK data
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined facial recognition database firm Clearview AI more than £7.5 million (around $9.4 million) for breaching the UK GDPR. The ICO has also ordered Clearview to stop scraping and using the personal data of UK residents, and to delete the data of UK residents from its systems.
Clearview has scraped more than 20 billion images of faces and data available on the internet. Its service then allows customers – including the police – to upload an image to the Clearview app which matches it to images in the database. Close matches and a link to the source of the matches are returned to the customer.
