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Clearview AI unlawful biometric scraping

Clearview AI · 2022

Organisation
Clearview AI
Year
2022
Failure mode
Unlawful processing
Severity
critical
Domain
Biometric ID / categorisation
Source
CNIL/ICO/Garante, 2021–22

What happened

Mass facial-image scraping drew multiple GDPR fines and bans across the EU and UK.

What would have prevented it

Lawful basis + DPIA + biometric-use restrictions

Requirements this maps to

Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.