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Clearview AI's California appeal has ramifications for free speech, privacy balance

By Mike Swift ( November 20, 2024, 01:14 GMT | Comment) -- Clearview AI has said its legal problems in the US are in the rear view, but in a case being heard by a California appeals court over the legality of the controversial facial recognition company's scraping of billions of faces from the Internet, the company says the suit is illegally interfering with its First Amendment rights. The case has repercussions for the fraught balance between free speech and personal privacy.In assembling a searchable database of billions of faces scraped from the Internet, Clearview AI has often been portrayed as a rogue privacy violator. In a California appeals court case, however, Clearview portrays itself as a plucky, public-minded crime-fighter trying to exercise its First Amendment rights....

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