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Face search company Clearview AI overturns UK privacy fine (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"A company which enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK's privacy watchdog.

Last year, Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5m by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for unlawfully storing facial images.

Privacy International (who helped bring the original case I believe) responded to this on Mastodon:

"The first 33 pages of the judgment explain with great detail and clarity why Clearview falls squarely within the bounds of GDPR. Clearview's activities are entirely "related to the monitoring of behaviour" of UK data subjects.

In essence, what Clearview does is large-scale processing of a highly intrusive nature. That, the Tribunal agreed.

BUT in the last 2 pages the Tribunal tells us that because Clearview only sells to foreign governments, it doesn't fall under UK GDPR jurisdiction.

So Clearview would have been subject to GDPR if it sold its services to UK police or government authorities or commercial entities, but because it doesn't, it can do whatever the hell it wants with UK people's data - this is at best puzzling, at worst nonsensical."

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[+] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org -11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

but because it doesn’t, it can do whatever the hell it wants with UK people’s data - this is at best puzzling, at worst nonsensical

Let's not forget one teeny tiny fact here: the people whose data Clearview can do whatever the hell it wants put it up online ALL BY THEMSELVES! Clearview scrapes the internet to find its material.

I've refused to have my picture taken since 2000 under any circumstances - be it at work, in group photos in clubs, etc. The reason being, those photos invariably get uploaded somewhere, usually with a caption that says "From left to right: ..."

I've been called paranoid and batshit crazy since 2000. But guess what: Clearview doesn't have my photo. Who's having the last laught now eh?

Clearview is a hateful turd of an outfit. It should be shut down for obscene immorality and its CEO can burn in hell. But let's not forget that it exploits people's carelessness. People's data fuels the corporate surveillance economy and this has been public knowledge for more than a couple of decades. It should come as no surprise that somebody some day would attempt to match people's faces with people's names using the data people themselves provided.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Same here! ! Have my upvote ❤️🖖

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