The controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, has been warned it could face a £17 million fine for multiple breaches of UK Data Protection law. The Information Commissioner said today that the company, which uses scraping technology to harvest photographs of people from social media and web sites is alleged to have made serious data protection breaches. The ICO has issued the company with a provisional notice requiring it to halt the processing of data belonging to people in the UK and to delete copies of all data held on UK citizens. The regulator has asked Clearview to respond to the allegations, which are set out in a preliminary notice of intent and a preliminary enforcement notice, before the ICO makes a final decision, expected by mid-2022.