The ICO has issued a statement outlining its concerns with the findings of the First Tier Tribunal, which ruled in favor of allowing face biometrics firm Clearview AI to appeal a 2022 penalty imposed for breaching data privacy laws.
In 2022, the ICO fined Clearview AI £7,552,800 and issued an enforcement notice ordering it to stop collecting personal data of UK residents publicly available on the internet to include in its biometric database of billions of faces.