Clearview AI could be fined £17M from UK privacy watchdog

Clearview AI is back in hot water, this time from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The controversial facial recognition giant has caught the attention of global privacy regulators and campaigners for its practice of scraping personal photos from the web for its system without explicit consent. Clearview AI is expected to have scraped over 10 billion photos. "Common law has never recognised a right to privacy for your face," Clearview AI lawyer Tor Ekeland once argued. The UK's ICO launched a joint probe with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) into Cleaview AI's practices. Earlier this month, Australia's Information Commissioner Angelene Falk determined that "the act of uploading an image to a social media site does not unambiguously indicate agreement to collection of that image by an unknown third party for commercial purposes."