A facial recognition firm was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?

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A facial recognition firm was fined £7.5m for brazenly harvesting your data – does it care?
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Clearview AI earned a heavy fine for scraping millions of pictures of people’s faces from social media. But that doesn’t mean it will change its ways

, and American data protection regulations are slim, and mostly bound up in contract law – by which Clearview is unencumbered, because it didn’t make any agreements with the people whose data it processed. A few state regulators have taken action against Clearview, and Illinois, which has the strongest biometric privacy law in the country,on the company working with the private sector in the state . But, other than that, the company continues to operate more or less unchallenged in the US.

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