Clearview AI Sued Over Privacy Allegations
A company with facial recognition tech to create so-called faceprints of a person's identity (see 2003030054) was sued for allegedly violating people's privacy. Clearview AI undertook "unlawful surreptitious capture and storage of millions of Illinoisans’ sensitive biometric identifiers," alleged the…
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American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago, Illinois State Public Interest Research Group and Mujeres Latinas en Accion. They told a state court in Cook County Thursday Clearview violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act: "Clearview has captured more than three billion faceprints from images available online, all without the [subjects'] knowledge." It's the first such case to attempt to "force any face recognition surveillance company to answer directly to groups representing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, undocumented immigrants, and other vulnerable communities uniquely harmed," the ACLU emailed. The company didn't comment.