{"id":26764,"date":"2020-07-09T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26764"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:20:18","slug":"uk-australia-launch-joint-investigation-into-facial-recognition-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26764","title":{"rendered":"UK, Australia launch joint investigation into facial recognition firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators in the United Kingdom and Australia announced a joint investigation Thursday of Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company that has scraped billions of photos from the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner offices of both countries\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mydsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvpycysn_dcdtcchphftcjrhhttjh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mydsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvpycysn_dcdtcchphftcjrhhttjh.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594417764467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmszHFQa1sOhZf1Vt97oqR_hILNg\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that their investigation will focus on how the company scrapes data and maintains it.<\/p>\n<p>The probe will evaluate whether Clearview violated the U.K. Data Protection Act or the Australian Privacy Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to Clearview for comment on the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has been under intense scrutiny since reports found it to have amassed a database of more than 3 billion photos collected by scraping social media.<\/p>\n<p>BuzzFeed News reported in February that police in the U.K. and Australia have conducted hundreds of searches using Clearview&#8217;s tech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation highlights the importance of enforcement cooperation in protecting the personal information of Australian and UK citizens in a globalised data environment,&#8221; regulators said in Thursday&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulators in the United Kingdom and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26765,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26764\/revisions\/26765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}