INTRODUCTION
In early 2020, the New York Times reported that ‘a little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images’. It was revealed that this start-up, Clearview AI, was operating a facial recognition app that could find the public photos of individuals when a picture of them is uploaded on it, thanks to its database consisting of more than 3 billion images scraped from all over the Internet. Users of this app were reported to be various, ranging from law enforcement authorities to private companies. After this revelation, the company received major criticism and was later scrutinized by judicial and administrative authorities worldwide. Most notably, data protection authorities (DPA) of France, Greece, Italy, and the UK issued Clearview AI with hefty fines of up to €20m …
Taner Kuru, Lawfulness of the mass processing of publicly accessible online data to train large language models, International Data Privacy Law. Published: 9 October 2024.
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