LONDON The U.K. government began courting U.S. data and surveillance firm Palantir to work on ways to tap patient data from the National Health Service back in January 2019, according to documents seen by POLITICO that shed light on the relationship with the company.
The documents show the government pitched access to NHS data earlier than has previously been reported and a year before Palantir won a controversial contract to mine the NHS s COVID-19 patient data.
In a meeting at the exclusive get-together of business leaders and policymakers in Davos, Switzerland, that year, former Trade Secretary Liam Fox encouraged the U.S. data giant s executives to make use of “untapped” NHS data.
Facial recognition: Legal complaints lodged against Clearview AI in five countries
Company has built a business on the faces of 3 billion people scraped from the web without their knowledge
Facial recognition: Legal complaints lodged against Clearview AI in five countries
Privacy campaigners filed a series of legal complaints with five European regulators against the US tech firm Clearview AI on Thursday, alleging the company scraped facial images of 3 billion people from the web without their knowledge or permission, in contravention of the GDPR and other regulations.
New York-based Clearview AI sells facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies and businesses. Its customer list includes banks, governments, many US police forces and also the London Metropolitan Police.
Privacy and human rights organisations have asked data protection regulators in the UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece to investigate controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. They are seeking to ban the company’s activities in Europe, alleging that it is in breach of European data protection laws.
Clearview AI, the American maker of a controversial facial recognition tool used mostly by police, is facing a downpour of legal complaints across Europe as of Thursday, alleging scopious privacy violations based on internal documents showing the company’s algorithm at work.