Hi, I'm Megan Ward and I'm joined by Flick Fisher for today's bite-size legal update.

We'll be talking about Clearview AI's successful challenge against a 7.5 million pound fine issued

by the UK Data Protection Regulator.

Now, the headline is somewhat of a red herring for the other more interesting takeaways from the case.

Today, we'll be unpacking the analysis behind the judgment. Thank you. So who is Clearview?

Clearview is a well-funded New York-based startup.

They offer a facial recognition search engine, predominantly used by law enforcement

and government agencies to help investigate crimes.

Their service is powered by a database of reportedly over 20 billion facial images with a 75 million image per day growth rate.

Now those images are collected by Clearview crawling the web to scrape publicly available images of individuals

and their practices around that collection

has got them into trouble with privacy regulators in a number of countries. We can split

clear views processing into two activities and these were referred to as processing activity

one and two in the case. Processing activity one covers Clearview's collection of the images and the

development and maintenance of its database.

And Processing Activity 2 covers Clearviews processing from the receipts of the probe image,

and that's the image submitted by their client to use for the search,

to the matching of the probe image against the database and returning any results to the client.

So, before we delve into the UK court decision, Flick, perhaps you can give us a quick overview of how we got to where we are today, because it's the latest in a number of regulatory

decisions against Clearview in Europe and beyond. Yeah, thanks, Megan. So yeah, this is not the first

time that Clearview has been under the hammer from the regulators. The European block has made, has been making it very difficult for Clearview to sell its services in Europe. We've had a number of regulatory enforcement actions that have been taken against them from regulators across Europe, including the Keneal, the Italian

regulators and the Greek regulators. And all of those regulators have really challenged the fact

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