Clearview AI told it broke Australia’s privacy law, ordered to delete data

Clearview AI told it broke Australia’s privacy law, ordered to delete data

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/clearview-ai-australia-privacy-breach/

After Canada, now Australia has found that controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, broke national privacy laws when it covertly collected citizens’ facial biometrics and incorporated them into its AI-powered identity matching service — which it sells to law enforcement agencies and others.

In a statement today, Australia’s information commissioner and privacy commissioner, Angelene Falk, said Clearview AI’s facial recognition tool breached the country’s Privacy Act 1988 by: