Digital Rights alliance file legal complaints across Europe against facial recognition company Clearview AI

Today, noyb and other EU digital rights organisations filed legal complaints to stop online mass surveillance by facial recognition company Clearview. Complaint filed to Austrian Data Protection Authority (PDF) Blogpost Privacy International Complaints in five countries. A coalition of organisations including noyb, Privacy International (PI), Hermes Center and Homo Digitalis has filed a series of submissions against Clearview AI, Inc., a facial recognition company that claims to have "the largest known database of 3+ billion facial images" attained from social media accounts and other online sources. The complaints were submitted to data protection regulators in France, Austria, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom. Clearview’s dishonest practices. The company became widely known in January 2020, when a New York Times investigation revealed its practices to the world. Prior to this, Clearview had operated with intentional secrecy, while offering its product to law enforcement agencies