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What is going on between the ICO and Clearview AI? The UK GDPR's scope and the meaning of "monitoring behaviour".
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What is going on between Clearview AI and the ICO?
Actions against Clearview have been a test of how far digital regulation actually has extraterritorial effect.
This month, we got an answer on this from the UK’s Upper Tribunal, and it’s an important judgment about the territorial reach of the UK GDPR—at least on paper.
In May 2022, the ICO fined Clearview AI £7.5 million and ordered it to delete the data of UK residents. Clearview appealed. Then, in a quite surprising move in October 2023, the First-tier Tribunal overturned that fine.
The FTT found that the ICO lacked…
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