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Clearview AI can’t use free-speech law to escape California biometric privacy suit

By Maria Dinzeo ( May 23, 2025, 00:43 GMT | Insight) -- Clearview AI can’t dodge claims that it illegally collected biometric data from millions of Californians, a three-justice panel of the First District California Court of Appeal ruled, finding that its creation of a searchable database of millions of Californians to furnish to law enforcement isn't protected speech under California's anti-SLAPP statute.Harvesting billions of images from the internet to create a biometric database of Californians’ faces to sell to law enforcement isn't constitutionally protected activity, a California appeals court has ruled....

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