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ACLU accuses Clearview AI of privacy “nightmare scenario”
- pixxel 6y ago> The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit. >In a suit filed in Illinois, the A.C.L.U. said that Clearview violated a state law that forbids companies from using a resident’s fingerprints or face scans without consent. >Under the law, residents have the right to sue companies for up to $5,000 per privacy violation. ... Up to $5k doesn’t seem adequate in this case.
- tuckerconnelly 6y agoWouldn't it be $5k * number of images scraped? Illinois has 12.7 million residents. If only 6 million images were scraped, that would be $30B.
- zoopdewoop 6y agoThose darn COPA violations...
- pixxel 6y agoYes indeed. Sorry I wasn’t clear, I meant from an individual’s perspective. $5K isn’t much, but yes the total sum would give some satisfaction.
- nwsm 6y agoThat's generally how class action law suits play out.
- drchopchop 6y agoWell, their "HQ" is a 1-person WeWork office near Penn Station, I kinda doubt they have the money to pay out any giant class action settlements.
- jackson1442 6y agoOf course, you can only opt-out if you're a citizen of California, Illinois, the EU, UK, or Switzerland. Absurd.
- hellcow 6y agoThey don't even honor that. My info and deletion requests from months ago were ignored.
- thephyber 6y agoSmall claims court litigation (if the courts ever reopen and clear the backlog of bankruptcies) will get some attention.
- hellcow 6y agoThere's no record of the claim ever being submitted because they don't send any confirmation. They just ignore it. If you're going to submit these forms, take screenshots as evidence.
- Nextgrid 6y agoAre you suggesting to sue them on the basis of the GDPR? As far as I know that regulation doesn’t have give data subjects the rights to sue, and even then, proving monetary damages will be difficult.
- adrr 6y agoWas it a CCPA request or GDPR?
- shostack 6y agoDitto.
- sir_brickalot 6y agoI asked for info under GDPR and sent them a heavily redacted copy of my ID (redacted: surname, half my ID, address) and actually got an answer 3 weeks later that they have nothing on me. Citing their email: "Hello, You are receiving this email as a response to your request for data access. After running the photo provided through our algorithm, no matches were found." Next step: Opt-out. Step after that: Rinse, repeat.