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Clearview also highlighted other non-EU European countries on its map that it hoped to do business with, including the United Kingdom and Ukraine.īeyond the map - which also points to plans to expand to Brazil, Colombia, and Nigeria - Clearview has boasted about its exploits abroad. Jerome said that GDPR protects any information that could be used to identify a person - biometric data included - but that the EU made exceptions for law enforcement and national security. Joseph Jerome, former policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology and current Director of Multistate Policy at Common Sense Media, said it was unclear whether Clearview AI's technology would violate the GDPR.

These countries have strict privacy protections under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a 2016 law that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens. Potentially more problematic is Clearview’s inclusion of nine European Union countries - among them Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands - on its expansion map. “The issue is not limited to scraping records, but rather whether a private company may scrape records with the intent of performing biometric scans and selling that data to the government.” “Clearview’s conduct violates citizens’ constitutional rights in numerous ways, including by interfering with citizens’ right to access the courts,” he told BuzzFeed News. Scott Drury, a lawyer representing a plaintiff suing Clearview in Illinois for violating a state law on biometric data collection, agreed. “Just because Clearview may have a right to scrape some of this data, that doesn’t mean that they have an immunity from lawsuits from those of us whose information is being sold without our consent.” “No court has ever found the First Amendment gives a constitutional right to use publicly available information for facial recognition,” Cahn said. “So the way we have built our system is to only take publicly available information and index it that way.”Ĭahn dismissed Ton-That’s argument, describing it as “more about public relations than it is about the law.” “There is also a First Amendment right to public information,” Ton-That told CBS News Wednesday. The company, which has received cease-and-desist orders from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook argues that it has a First Amendment right to harvest data from social media. He did confirm that the company, which had previously claimed that it was working with 600 law enforcement agencies, has relationships with two countries on the map.Ĭlearview has made headlines in past weeks for a facial recognition technology that it claims includes a growing database of some 3 billion photos scraped from social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, and for misrepresenting its work with law enforcement by falsely claiming a role in the arrest of a terrorism suspect. The document, part of a presentation given to the North Miami Police Department in November 2019, includes the United Arab Emirates, a country historically hostile to political dissidents, and Qatar and Singapore, the penal codes of which criminalize homosexuality.Ĭlearview CEO Hoan Ton-That declined to explain whether Clearview is currently working in these countries or hopes to work in them.

As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 billion photos scraped from websites and social media, is looking to grow around the world.Ī document obtained via a public records request reveals that Clearview has been touting a “rapid international expansion” to prospective clients using a map that highlights how it either has expanded, or plans to expand, to at least 22 more countries, some of which have committed human rights abuses.