Discussion
We’re in the UK Court of Appeal today with AWO intervening in a case between Clearview AI - provider of facial recognition technology based on scraped data - and the UK’s Data Protection Authority, the ICO.
Our argument is simple: Clearview is bound by, and has broken, the GDPR.
In reality though the GDPR’s global reach is carefully considered and calibrated. And Clearview’s biometric surveillance and behavioural monitoring is captured.
It’s more important than ever that companies don’t escape scrutiny because of their links with foreign governments.
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5715/clearview-and-long-arm-law
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Clearview scrapes billions of facial images from the internet, builds a biometric database, and sells access to law enforcement agencies. 👎
But they’re arguing that they are beyond the reach of data protection law because they provide services to foreign law enforcement agencies (mainly in the US)