Image Recognition
Privacy and human rights organisations have filed legal complaints against controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI to data protection regulators in a coordinated action across five countries. The complaints call for data protection regulators in the UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece to ban the company’s activities in Europe, alleging that it is in breach of European data protection laws. Clearview AI uses scraping technology to harvest photographs of people from social media and news sites without their consent, according to complaints filed with data protection regulators in the five countries. No legal basis The complaints allege that Clearview has no legal basis for collecting and processing the data it collects under European data protection law. The complaint urges the ICO to work with other data protection regulators to investigate the company’s compliance with data protection laws.