With the complaint at issue it was also requested that the practices of the defendant company be examined on the whole from the point of view of the protection of personal data. ![]() The Authority examined a complaint against Clearview AI Inc, lodged by the civil non-profit organization “Homo Digitalis” on behalf of a complainant, who claimed that s/he was not satisfied in relation to the right of access s/he exercised before the aforementioned company. Summary of the Decision Origin of the case: Key words: Web scraping, Images Database, Facial Recognition, Biometric Data, AI systems, Geolocation, Jurisdiction under EU law, Representative in the EU.Decision: Infringement of the GDPR, Administrative fine.Article 17: Representatives of controllers not established in the Union. Article 15: Right of access by the data subject. Article 14: Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject. Article 12: Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject. Article 9(1) and 9(2)(e): Processing of special categories of personal data. Article 6 (1)(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f): Lawfulness of processing. Article 5(1)(a) and (2): Principles relating to processing of personal data. Legal Reference: GDPR: Article 3: Territorial scope.Cross-border case or national case: National case.And, as in any democratic society, freedom of thought is fundamental. One must then ask who makes the call? Who decides what’s good and what’s bad? The company who produces the technology? The world states? The people? You? You may have an opinion, and I would certainly like to hear it, but so do others – and they may challenge yours. The outcome lies in how, and by who, it is used. Clearview AI can without a shadow of a doubt be used to do good, but it can also be used to do very, VERY, bad. This all, more or less, comes down to a highly relevant quote: ”A sword is only as good as the person who is wielding it”. Imagine, for a second, if a totalitarian regime used this technology to track down and prosecute critics of an on-going invasion - sound familiar? Could it possibly be used for other purposes? What’s perfectly acceptable here might not be acceptable somewhere else. Unfortunately for us, the term “criminal” is not as black and white as one may wish. But what happens when the technology is used for something else? What if it’s used in totalitarian regimes to track down protesters?Ĭlearview AI is undoubtedly an extremely powerful and effective tool for law enforcement agencies across the globe to track and find criminals. Of course, finding someone guilty of child abuse and holding them accountable in a court of law is an achievement in any society – given they are guilty and that their right to a fair trial is upheld. ![]() ![]() They range from identifying robbers to finding child abusers. They do this by scraping images off social media LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etcetera, without the consent of the user.Ĭlearview AI shares a whole series of, what they label as, “success stories” on their website. For reference, there is approximately 8.000.000.000 (eight billion) people on Earth. Their plan is to collect a total of 100.000.000.000 (one hundred billion) photos. It has also been reported that they offer the service to exclusive private parties wishing to perform background checks on people they might associate with.Ĭlearview AI has previously stated that they have collected 20.000.000.000 (twenty billion) photos in their database, and that they plan to continue by adding another 1.500.000.000 (one and a half billion) photos each month. ![]() It’s used by law enforcement agencies around the world and is reported to supply their software to 2.200 law enforcement customers, spread over 27 countries. It has, amongst other things, been used to identify those who participated in the storming of the U.S. This is following similar action taken by French, Italian and British authorities.įor those not familiar, Clearview AI licenses facial recognition software which is able to identify a fully masked person with an accuracy of >98%. Martin.Ībout two weeks ago the Hellenic Data Protection Authority hit Clearview AI with a €20.000.000 (twenty million euro) fine. “A sword is only as good as the who is wielding it” – George R.R.
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