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Clearview AI asks appeals court to erase privacy suit on free speech grounds

By Mike Swift ( May 19, 2025, 22:38 GMT | Comment) -- Clearview AI told a California appeals court that its searchable facial-recognition database for law enforcement is protected free speech under the state's Anti-SLAPP law. The controversial facial recognition company argued it merely sorts photos and presents the results to police — speech that the law protects. But plaintiffs told the appeals court that Clearview's extraction and storing of biometric data without consent is a clear invasion of privacy guarantees in the California constitution, activity not protected by the Anti-SLAPP law. Even as Clearview AI won final federal court approval last week to settle biometric privacy litigation by selling off a chunk of itself, the facial recognition startup is trying to stave off a suit in California alleging it illegally collected the biometric data of millions of Californians....

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