Eli Wade-Scott from Edelson PC, a nationally recognized-leader in consumer privacy litigation that recently obtained a $650 million settlement in a BIPA case with Facebook, which has also announced that it will curtail its facial recognition practices nationwide. “There is a battle being fought in courtrooms and statehouses across the country about who is going to control biometrics-Big Tech or the people being tracked by them-and this represents one of the biggest victories for consumers to date,” said J. Other companies would be wise to take note, and other states should follow Illinois’ lead in enacting strong biometric privacy laws.” “Clearview can no longer treat people’s unique biometric identifiers as an unrestricted source of profit. “By requiring Clearview to comply with Illinois’ pathbreaking biometric privacy law not just in the state, but across the country, this settlement demonstrates that strong privacy laws can provide real protections against abuse,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, a deputy director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. The company will also cease selling access to its database to any entity in Illinois, including state and local police, for five years. Among the provisions in the binding settlement, which will become final when approved by the court, Clearview is permanently banned, nationwide, from making its faceprint database available to most businesses and other private entities. ![]() The central provision of the settlement restricts Clearview from selling its faceprint database not just in Illinois, but across the United States. CHICAGO – Under a legal settlement filed in court today, Clearview AI - a secretive face surveillance company claiming to have captured more than 10 billion faceprints from peoples’ online photos across the globe - has agreed to a new set of restrictions that ensure the company is in alignment with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a groundbreaking Illinois privacy law.
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