uk information commissioner's office

  • UK Information Rights Regulator Fines US Face Recognition Developer

    A U.K. office in charge of protecting information rights has fined a facial recognition company from the United States for exploiting photos of individuals in the U.K. and elsewhere to construct without their consent a worldwide online database that could potentially be used to monitor people or sold to other companies.

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