Lawsuit Says Clearview s Facial Recognition App Violates Illinois Privacy Laws techdirt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from techdirt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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On Friday, the plaintiffs in the consolidated class action against facial recognition company Clearview AI filed a motion for preliminary injunction and a memorandum in support of the motion related to allegations that the defendants surreptitiously scraped and obtained the plaintiffs’ and class’ photographs and harvested their biometrics to use in the company’s searchable facial recognition database; the plaintiffs asserted that the defendants violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act and have failed to sufficiently remedy their conduct on their own.
According to the motion, filed in the Northern District of Illinois, the plaintiffs seek to enjoin Clearview AI and the named defendants from “(c)ontinuing to possess, use and store the unlawfully collected biometric identifiers and biometric information (collectively, ‘Biometric Data’) of Illinois residents”; “(c)ollecting, capturing or obtaining Illinois residents’ Biom
First Amendment News 281: Clearview face-recognition controversy continues privacy v. free speech
Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws. . . . Litigation against the start-up “has the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship between privacy claims and First Amendment defenses in the 21st century,” Mr. Abrams said in a phone interview. He said the underlying legal questions could one day reach the Supreme Court.
At the time of that post, Mr. Abrams told FAN that there “are ten cases in federal court, six in SDNY and four in the ND of Illinois. There is a case in the Vermont State Courts and one in the Illinois state courts by the ACLU.”