On 1 June 2025, China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) brought into force the Measures for the Security Management of Face Recognition Technology Applications (the "Measures"). This landmark regulation is the first piece of dedicated legislation in Chin [...]
Spanish football club Atlético Osasuna introduced a facial recognition system for stadium access, sparking a GDPR complaint. The case highlights the challenges of biometric data processing, questioning its legality under the GDPR. The issue goes beyond [...]
The UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), announced on 23 July 2024 that it had issued a warning to a school in Essex for the unlawful use of facial recognition technology - a violation of Art. 58 para. 2 lit. b UK GDPR. What [...]
Clearview AI (hereafter Clearview) is a company dedicated to facial recognition. Clearview created a data base of over 20 billion images indexed from the Internet and social media and developed a facial recognition algorithm to analyze and match faces. [...]
