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The UK's privacy watchdog doesn't have the power to sanction Clearview AI, the U.S. company found to have harvested billions of British faces without consent, a court has ruled.
"The company not only enables identification of those people, but effectively monitors their behavior and offers it as a commercial service. That is unacceptable," said information commissioner John Edwards at the time. Clearview's software searched a database of billions of faces to detect matches, for business customers as well as law enforcement bodies. It was trialed in the U.K. by the Metropolitan Police, the Ministry of Defence and the National Crime Agency.
"It is important to note that this judgment does not remove the ICO’s ability to act against companies based internationally who process data of people in the U.K., particularly businesses scraping data of people in the U.K., and instead covers a specific exemption around foreign law enforcement."
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