Clearview AI fined £7.5m for illegally using images of Brits scraped online

"The company is accused of illegally scraping 20 billion images of people's faces from the web without their knowledge or permission, and then using them to form a global facial recognition database."

"The company's customers include numerous commercial and police organisations and its database has provoked concerns from US politicians and civil liberties organisations."

"The watchdog had in November 2021 announced its provisional intent to fine the company over £17m as part of a joint investigation with the Australian privacy watchdog. It is not clear why the final penalty was only £7.5m.

It has not published the formal monetary penalty notice - which normally includes details of the investigation - as the document is still going through a redaction process"

Founders and investors:

Founders are Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz and an investor is Peter Thiel of Palantir the company that provides big data analytics for analysts in the United States Intelligence Community.

my comment - £7.5 is a good price for the data! Good job Peter! /s