An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected.
It's the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates around the world over its practice of "scraping” photos from social media to identify people wanted by police and other government agencies.
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