#UK #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #DataProtection #Clearview: "A company that sold a facial recognition database featuring information on British citizens has escaped being fined because of a loophole in UK data protection law.
Judges have ruled that Clearview AI broke no law when it sold its database to police forces because the buyers were non-UK and therefore outside of jurisdiction.
US-based Clearview had been fined £7.5m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in 2022 over the sale of its database, which is made up of billions of photos scraped from social media.
The ICO believes that a “substantial amount of data from UK residents” is on the database."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/18/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-database-escapes-fine/
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