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Zut alors! Raclage crapuleux! Clearview AI in 20% more trouble in France – Naked Security

The French data protection regulator, CNIL, has fined facial recognition service Clearview AI €20,000,000 for deploying its image scraping technology in France. CNIL argued that constructing data templates for recognising individuals amounted to collecting biometric data, which is unarguably personally identifiable information. Clearview AI collects photographs from a wide range of websites, including social networks,…