Legality of collecting faces online challenged

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Clearview AI, a US firm with a database of three billion facial images from the internet, is facing a new legal challenge from privacy campaigners.

Privacy International and others argue its methods of collecting photos and selling them to private firms and the police “go beyond what we could ever expect as online users”.

Clearview has said is has no contracts with any EU-based customers.

It said it had complied with requests to remove images of EU citizens.

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