The office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced this week it would be taking no further action against facial recognition company Clearview AI. This marked a significant victory for one of the most controversial technology companies in the world.
In 2021, Australia’s privacy regulator ruled Clearview AI broke privacy laws for scraping millions of photographs from social media sites such as Facebook and using them to train its facial recognition tool. It ordered the company to stop collecting images and delete the ones it had already had.
