The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK on Monday fined facial recognition surveillance firm Clearview AI more than 7.5 million pounds ($9.5 million) for using images of people in the UK and elsewhere in the United Kingdom to access the web and were collected from social media. A global online database that can be used for facial recognition.
The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to stop receiving and using personal data of UK residents and deleting the data from its systems.
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Clearview AI has collected over 20 billion images of people’s faces and data from publicly available information on the Internet and social media platforms around the world to create an online database.
The ICO said in a statement that people were not informed that their images were being collected or used as such.
“It enables the company to not only identify those people, but to effectively monitor their behavior and offer it as a commercial service. This is unacceptable. That’s why we fined the company and issued an enforcement notice.” Worked to protect people in the UK,” said UK Information Commissioner John Edwards.
People expect their personal information to be respected, regardless of where in the world their data is being used, he said.
“That is why global companies need international enforcement. Working with partners around the world has helped us take this action and protect people from this kind of intrusive activity,” Edwards said.
Earlier this month, Clearview AI agreed to permanently ban businesses and other private entities from using its service.
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Under a legal settlement, Clearview AI agreed to a new set of restrictions that ensure the company is in alignment with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in the US, an important privacy law.
The ICO enforcement action follows a joint investigation with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which focused on Clearview AI’s use of images of people, data scraping from the Internet and biometric data for facial recognition.
“This international collaboration is essential to protect people’s privacy rights in 2022. This means working with regulators in other countries, as we did with our Australian partners on this matter,” Edwards said.
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