Commissioner-initiated investigation into Clearview AI Inc
determination3 Nov 2021
Respondent
Clearview AI Inc
Facts
Clearview AI scraped publicly available images from the web and used them to build a facial-recognition tool that was offered to Australian police agencies.
Outcome
Commissioner determined Clearview AI breached APP 3 (collection) and APP 10 (data quality), ordered destruction of Australian images and cessation of collection.
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