Clearview has a regulatory friend in Austria but a cold shoulder for France

On the same day this week came separate reports regarding European governments finding fault with Clearview AI operations.

The regulators' issues with the notorious face-scraping facial recognition subscription service were largely the same, but the outcomes on May 10 were not.

Responding to a citizen's complaint, the Austrian data protection authority found that Clearview was breaking European Union law by scanning, collecting and profiting from faces using an algorithm online.

The law is the General Data Protection Regulation, which has …

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