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[Clearview AI](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html) is a lucrative [facial recognition](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/how-facial-recognition-works/) company that has spent the past few years in legal hot water. To the company’s [chagrin](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/25/techscape-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-fine), [several](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/clearview-ai-another-cnil-gspr-fine/) [European](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/clearview-ai-another-cnil-gspr-fine/) [countries](https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/clearview-greek-ban-order/) have fined Clearview millions for violating their data protections laws by scraping billions of images of peoples’ faces from popular social media websites without their knowledge or [consent](https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/clearview-ai-responds-to-cease-and-desist-letters-by-claiming-first-amendment-right-to-publicly-available-data) in order to build its facial recognition app. So far, these moves have failed to stop Clearview from [profiting](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/clearview-ai-valuation.html) from our data. But as lawsuits against Clearview continue to mount, the company has invoked a dangerous legal argument that, if successful, could provide a playbook for numerous [AI companies](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-lensa-ai-prisma-labs-biometric-information-2257096) to evade accountability.



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