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It was also issued a 5 million penalty ($5.5 million) for non-compliance.

It claims to have collected over 50 billion images - primarily by scraping from the internet.

Facial recognition

then you’re free to end up in the database of Clearview and be tracked.

This is not a doom scenario from a scary film.

Since Clearview broke the law, he affirms that the use of Clearview services would be illegal.

Similar sanctions have been placed on the organization in Canada, France, Italy, and Australia.

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