"Govt drops further action against Clearview AI", 22 August 2024

Australia’s information and privacy regulator has decided not to pursue further legal action against controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, which it previously found had scraped images of Australians from the internet without consent.

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Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind said she had “given extensive consideration to the question of whether the OAIC should invest further resources in scrutinising the actions of Clearview AI”.

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The OAIC ... said this included an order for those images to be deleted, and for the company to stop collecting images of Australians.

The regulator said recent media reports about Clearview allegedly continuing to collect images of Australians led to questions over whether the company had complied with the government's 2021 order.

Clearview AI, which was co-founded by Australian entrepreneur Hoan Ton-That, did not respond to a request for comment, and has not proved whether it deleted images of Australians or stopped collecting them.

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