The data protection laws were broken when Clearview AI collected personal data without people's consent, and asked for additional information, such as photos, when people asked if they were in the database. It found that this may have deterred people from objecting to their data being collected.
The company enables identification of those people, but also monitors their behavior and offers it as a commercial service. The UK's information commissioner said that it was unacceptable.
One of the world's largest databases of people's faces, with 20 billion images removed from the internet without their consent, is the product of Clearview Artificial Intelligence. Police departments pay for access to the database to look for matches.
Data protection authorities around the Western world have found this to be a clear violation of privacy and are now working together to stamp it out. International cooperation is essential to protect people's privacy rights in the future, and is due to meet with European regulators this week.
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