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Clearview AI, the American maker of a controversial facial recognition tool used mostly by police, is facing a downpour of legal complaints across Europe as of Thursday, alleging scopious privacy violations based on internal documents showing the company’s algorithm at work.
Several European privacy campaign groups filed legal complaints Thursday against Clearview AI alleging that the company s facial recognition technology stockpiled biometric data on more than 3