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Clearview AI accused by French regulator of breaching GDPR

By Matthew Newman
  • 16 Dec 2021 07:13
  • 16 Dec 2021 07:13
Clearview AI has come under further restrictions in Europe with an order from France’s data protection authority to stop collecting images in France and to help people erase images scraped from the Internet.

The US facial-recognition company, which operates what it calls "the world’s largest facial network," uses images pulled fro

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Matthew Newman

Chief Correspondent


Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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