UK and Australia Open Joint Investigation Into Clearview AI
The UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI—to cheers of privacy advocates the world over. Clearview quickly made a name for itself as a facial recognition firm that had scraped billions of images from millions of websites. Ignoring platform policies and user agreements, Clearview even scraped images from the top social media companies, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Things only got worse from there, as the company was found to be monitoring police searches to discourage them from talking to journalists. Despite repeatedly insisting it only sold its software…
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