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French data protection watchdog takes action against Clearview AI

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Published: December 17th, 2021,
Last updated: December 20th, 2021

The French data protection regulator CNIL has formally ordered facial recognition software company Clearview AI to stop collecting and processing data from France. Clearview has processed 10 billion photos worldwide from publicly available sources on the web for its algorithms largely without the consent of the subjects of the data.

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