US facial recognition firm faces £17m UK fine for ‘serious breaches’
A US company that gathered photos of people from Facebook and other social media sites for use in facial recognition by its clients is facing a £17m fine after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it had committed “serious breaches” of data protection law.
Clearview AI, which describes itself as the “world’s largest facial network”, allows its customers to compare facial data against a database of more than 10bn images harvested from the internet.
Source: US facial recognition firm faces £17m UK fine for ‘serious breaches’
