The facial recognition database firm must pay more than £7.5m and delete data it holds of UK residents.
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK's privacy watchdog and told to delete the data of UK residents.The Information Commissioner's Office says that breaches UK data protection laws.The BBC has approached Clearview AI for comment.The ICO says that, globally, the company has stored more than 20 billion facial images.
Mr Edwards continued: "People expect that their personal information will be respected, regardless of where in the world their data is being used." The UK has become the fourth country to take enforcement action against the firm, following France, Italy and Australia.The company's system allows a user to upload a photo of a face and find matches in a database of billions of images it has collected.
Mr Edwards said: "This international co-operation is essential to protect people's privacy rights in 2022.
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