The controversial company, already notorious for amassing over 50 billion facial images scraped from social platforms, signed a contract in mid-2019 with Investigative Consultant, Inc. to acquire roughly 690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos from across all 50 U.S. states.
“The contract shows that Clearview was trying to get social security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and other personal information along with the mugshots,” said Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC.
I wish for once this country could pass an unambiguously good law to protect people’s privacy.
Best we can do is protecting guns
And we don’t even use them effectively to protect our rights.
Best we can do is require photo ID for porn.
Clearview buys photo-ID-for-porn database in 3… 2… 1…
Illinois has a law against collecting biometric data.
Do you know what their enforcement mechanism is for a situation like this, where a company like Clearview is doing it against Illinois residents but it’s all happening online?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/10/20/illinois-facebook-users-to-get-third-and-final-check-from-record-650-million-biometric-privacy-settlement/
The article doesn’t say, was Facebook also required to delete all data related to Illinois residents? If not, they should have because all it did otherwise was make the data more expensive.
I’m not sure, but it does say that companies must delete it within 3 years of the last time they do business with you.
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004