The facial recognition software industry faces regulatory roadblocks in its efforts to scrape your photos from the Internet, experts say.
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Is facial recognition invading your privacy?
The UK's data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company. The company has collected images of people from the web and social media to create a global online database for police to use.
"The practice of scraping people's images and identities without their consent and performing facial recognition based on that data is questionably legal, and a serious violation of public privacy," Avi Golan, CEO of facial recognition company Oosto told Lifewire in an email interview. "Even if only used by law enforcement agencies, this violates privacy and public trust in the technology. The leakage of these capabilities to the private sector is a dangerous escalation."
Clearview did not immediately respond to a request from Lifewire for comment.
