{"id":6381,"date":"2022-05-23T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/23\/clearview-ai-ordered-to-delete-facial-recognition-data-belonging-to-uk-residents\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:41:29","slug":"clearview-ai-ordered-to-delete-facial-recognition-data-belonging-to-uk-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/23\/clearview-ai-ordered-to-delete-facial-recognition-data-belonging-to-uk-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/23\/23137603\/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/23\/23137603\/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"103.10110876452\">\n<p id=\"tra1yF\">Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to <a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/about-the-ico\/news-and-events\/news-and-blogs\/2022\/05\/ico-fines-facial-recognition-database-company-clearview-ai-inc\/\">delete all data belonging to UK residents<\/a> by the country\u2019s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO). The ICO also fined Clearview \u00a37.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK\u2019s data protection laws. <\/p>\n<p id=\"OzxVZe\">It\u2019s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/3\/22761001\/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/16\/22840179\/france-cnil-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-privacy-gdpr\">France<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/09\/clearview-italy-gdpr\/\">Italy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"q1AZb3\"><q>Clearview claims to have scraped 20 billion images from sources like Facebook and Instagram<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"5Clpk8\">Clearview claims its facial recognition database contains some 20 billion images scraped from public sources like Facebook and Instagram. It previously sold its software to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/ryanmac\/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement\">an array of private users and businesses<\/a>, but recently agreed to restrict itself in the US to selling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/9\/23063952\/clearview-ai-aclu-settlement-illinois-bipa-injunction-private-companies\">federal agencies and police departments<\/a> following a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). <\/p>\n<p id=\"kNMTe1\">In the UK, Clearview AI\u2019s services have been used in the past by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/08\/29\/in_brief_ai\/\">law enforcement customers<\/a> including the Metropolitan Police, Ministry of Defence, and National Crime Agency. ICO says the company \u201cno longer offers its services to UK organisations,\u201d but notes that the data it has scraped from UK residents can still be used by customers in other countries. <\/p>\n<p id=\"coqYx1\">In a press statement, the UK\u2019s Information Commissioner John Edwards said Clearview had likely collected a great deal of information on UK residents. \u201cThe company not only enables identification of those people, but effectively monitors their behaviour and offers it as a commercial service. That is unacceptable,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cThat is why we have acted to protect people in the UK by both fining the company and issuing an enforcement notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"7XKX74\">The ICO said Clearview violated several tenets of UK data protection law, including failing to use data in a way that is \u201cfair and transparent\u201d (given that residents\u2019 images were scraped without their knowledge or consent), \u201cfailing to have a lawful reason for collecting people\u2019s information,\u201d and \u201cfailing to have a process in place to stop the data being retained indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"n9mmND\">However, although ICO has issued a fine against Clearview and ordered the company to delete UK data, it\u2019s unclear how this might be enforced if Clearview has no business or customers in the country to sanction. In response to a similar deletion order and fine issued in Italy under EU law earlier this year, Clearview\u2019s CEO Hoan Ton-That responded that the US-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/09\/clearview-italy-gdpr\/\">was simply not subject to EU legislation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"DEZv0C\">When questioned on this matter, the ICO told <em>The Verge<\/em> that if the company fails to comply, it can issue further fines. (Though if Clearview ignores the first, it\u2019s unclear what more will do.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"QLeYH4\">In response to the same query, Lee Wolosky of Jenner and Block, Clearview\u2019s legal representatives, told <em>The Verge<\/em>: \u201cWhile we appreciate the ICO\u2019s desire to reduce their monetary penalty on Clearview AI, we nevertheless stand by our position that the decision to impose any fine is incorrect as a matter of law. Clearview AI is not subject to the ICO\u2019s jurisdiction, and Clearview AI does no business in the U.K. at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"0lo6F7\">The ICO added that Clearview has 28 days to appeal the ruling, and then 6 months to comply with it. When asked how the company will be expected to distinguish between data belonging to UK residents and other individuals, the watchdog said: \u201cThis is a question for Clearview to answer.\u201d The regulator added that its investigations team \u201cwill maintain contact with Clearview to make sure appropriate measures are taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"8tJreb\"><em><strong>Update, May 23rd, 09:57AM ET: <\/strong><\/em><em>The story has been updated with additional comment from the ICO and Clearview\u2019s legal representation. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/23\/23137603\/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/23\/23137603\/clearview-ai-ordered-delete-data-uk-residents-ico-fine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country\u2019s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO). The ICO also fined Clearview \u00a37.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK\u2019s data protection laws. It\u2019s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-6381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/23\/clearview-ai-ordered-to-delete-facial-recognition-data-belonging-to-uk-residents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country\u2019s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO). 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