Clearview AI’s image collation amounts to monitoring, UK regulator tells court
By Imogen Howse ( October 20, 2026, 16:45 GMT | Insight) -- Clearview AI monitors people’s behavior by continually collecting and organizing information about them, the UK's privacy regulator told the Court of Appeal on Tuesday in the company's challenge against the ICO's jurisdiction to enforce against it. The facial-recognition company does more than search for faces, the ICO argued, saying it curates information that creates records of people’s lives. Clearview disputes that its activities amount to monitoring.Clearview AI monitors people’s behavior by continually collecting information about them, the UK data protection regulator told appeal judges in London as it defended its power to fine the US-based company millions of pounds....
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