Don t scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
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Katyanna Quach Mon 8 Feb 2021 // 11:01 UTC Share
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Canada’s privacy watchdog has found Clearview AI in “clear violation” of the country’s privacy laws, and has told the facial-recognition startup to stop scraping images of Canadians and delete all existing photos it has on those citizens.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada launched an official investigation into the upstart’s practices, and as a result Clearview stopped selling its software to Canadian police.