France says facial recognition company Clearview breached privacy law | Malay Mail

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PARIS, Dec 16 — France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country. In a formal demand disclosed today, the CNIL stressed that Clearview’s...

Thursday, 16 Dec 2021 07:56 PM MYT

In a formal demand disclosed today, the CNIL stressed that Clearview’s collection of publicly-available facial images on social media and the Internet had no legal basis and breached European Union rules on data privacy. “These biometric data are particularly sensitive, notably because they are linked to our physical identity and allow us to be identified in a unique way,” the authority said in a statement.

 

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