Your face has a defender: the ICO. On Monday, the UK’s data protection regulator issued its third largest fine ever, against facial recognition provider Clearview AI. From our story:
The UK’s data watchdog has fined a facial recognition company £7.5m for collecting images of people from social media platforms and the web to add to a global database.
US-based Clearview AI has also been ordered to delete the data of UK residents from its systems by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Clearview has collected more than 20bn images of people’s faces and data from Facebook, other social media companies and from scouring the web.
