In re Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation, final approval order (20 March 2025): how the database was built (In re Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litig., No. 21-cv-00135 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 20, 2025), Dkt. 631, at 2)
The data came from public websites, yet collecting biometric identifiers from it without consent was the basis of the claims.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“Using a proprietary tool, the start-up assembled a massive biometric database of individuals by “scraping” their photos from publicly available websites and collecting their biometric facial geometry.”
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