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Vermont judge skeptical AG has jurisdiction to sue Clearview AI over scraping

By Maria Dinzeo ( November 3, 2025, 23:41 GMT | Insight) -- A Vermont judge Monday questioned whether 19th-century jurisdictional rules can keep pace with the borderless reach of modern data-scraping, as he weighed whether the state can sue facial-recognition company Clearview AI for harvesting the images of Vermonters from the internet to add to its vast biometric database.A Vermont judge signaled unease with applying traditional jurisdictional principles to the borderless reach of modern data-scraping technologies in a privacy lawsuit the Vermont attorney general brought against facial-recognition company Clearview AI....

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