This is the result of the settlement of the lawsuit at a court Illinois (USA) filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2020, alleging that Clearview WHO use data face without the user’s permission. The new agreement will formalize the actions Clearview has taken and is taking and protects the company from further action by the ACLU.
Specifically, Clearview has agreed to stop selling or distributing free to businesses/individuals access to the company’s facial database, which is collected from social networks like Facebook. The agreement also prohibits Clearview from cooperating with any public agency in the state of Illinois for five years.
In addition, Clearview must also make efforts to remove images of Illinois residents and maintain a mechanism to choose not to use or collect personal photos.
The ACLU welcomes the agreement and considers it a victory. ACLU representative Nathan Freed Wessler said: “Clearview can no longer use people’s unique biometric data for profit. Other companies should learn from this case, and other states should follow Illinois’s lead in enforcing the law privacy biometric data.”
Illinois is one of the states that heavily enforces privacy regulations regarding biometric data such as faces and fingerprints. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, had to agree to pay $650 million under a judgment based on biometric data laws in the state.
Clearview has actually announced that it will stop cooperating with private businesses from 2020. Instead, the company focuses on cooperating with thousands of local police agencies in the US and federal agencies such as the Department. American Justice. This business model has faced resistance from many lawmakers who want to limit the ability of state and federal governments to use facial databases in the US.
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