UK Court Upholds Most of Enforcement Against Clearview AI

The UK’s Upper Tribunal ruled largely in favor of the UK Information Commissioner in an appeal relating to its enforcement against Clearview AI, according to a statement.

• Commissioner fined Clearview £7.5m for scraping images of UK residents and using them for business purposes
  • Clearview appealed the fine and enforcement notice to the First-tier Tribunal
  • ICO appealed the tribunal’s decision
• Upper Tribunal upheld three of the Commissioner’s four grounds of appeal
  • Agreed that Clearview’s processing related to monitoring of UK residents and does not fall outside the reach of UK data protection law
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