A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet : Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner .
Related Coverage
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@kashhill
Kashmir Hill
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Wow, Australia's information commissioner rules that Clearview AI breached privacy laws, and has to delete photos and faceprints of Australians. https://www.oaic.gov.au/... Clearview plans to appeal the decision: https://www.reuters.com/...
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@oaicgov
Oaic
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Commissioner Angelene Falk has found that Clearview AI breached Australians' privacy by scraping their biometric information from the web and disclosing it through a facial recognition tool. Read more: https://oaic.gov.au/... https://twitter.com/...
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@blakereid
Blake E. Reid
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This is a good illustration of how actual privacy law, and not anti-scraping or self-(interested)-governance, is the right way to deal with facial recognition https://twitter.com/...
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@profcarroll
David Carroll
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Disgorgement is a real policy solution. Better than fines. https://twitter.com/...
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@mor10
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
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Every country should do this. Here's your opportunity to lead by example @JustinTrudeau. #BanFacialRecognition https://www.theverge.com/...
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@privacyint
@privacyint
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NEW! The Australian Information Commissioner @OAICgov has found that Clearview AI breached Australians' privacy by scraping their biometric information from the web and disclosing it through a facial recognition tool. https://twitter.com/...
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@arielbogle
Ariel Bogle
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Apropos of the OAIC-Clearview decision, now's the time to reveal I requested my Face Search data from Clearview under California's privacy laws last year and it was...a truly horrendous bunch of images culled in part from @MarcFennell, @raejohnston and @reillystyley's Instagrams.…
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@rmac18
@rmac18
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An Australian regulator ruled Clearview AI breached privacy laws and illegally collected citizens' personal data. It's ordering Clearview to stop collecting information on Australians and to delete existing face templates and data collected from Australia. https://www.oaic.gov.au…
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@joshgnosis
Josh Taylor
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Clearview AI is appealing the ruling to the AAT, while its Australian founder and CEO says the OAIC has misinterpreted Clearview's “value to society” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@jason_kint
Jason Kint
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Important context overlooked or not mentioned. It's been reported Clearview got some of its data by scraping Facebook and its highly controversial investor is on Facebook's board of directors. https://twitter.com/...