Clearview AI mass facial-recognition scraping
Date: 2020-01
Affected: Internet users worldwide
Attack vector: data-exfiltration
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

Clearview AI scraped over 30 billion images from social media and the open web without consent to build a facial-recognition tool sold to law enforcement, drawing GDPR-level fines from Italy, France, the UK and Australia, and exposing systemic biometric privacy abuse.


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