Questionable facial recognition: civil libertarians file complaints about Clearview AI
Clearview AI has scooped up billions of photos from the web and turned them into a biometrics database for authorities. European activists are calling for "a clear Europe-wide ban on such services". Clearview AI, a New York-based company specializing in facial recognition, has been in legal trouble in the US for some time. A whole series of complaints against the company is currently underway in several US states. Now they have been joined by European civil rights activists. An alliance of organizations including Privacy International and noyb ("none of your business") has filed complaints with the data protection authorities of the UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece. "What we want to achieve is a clear decision that services like Clearview are illegal in their current form in the EU," says Alan Dahi, privacy lawyer at noyb. That applies even if the providers are based abroad and have no paying customers in the EU, he adds. Thousands of government cust...