A group of law professors and the First Amendment Clinic at Duke Law School urged a U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss a lawsuit claiming Clearview AI violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, MediaPost reports. The law conflicts with the First Amendment by restricting companies’ use of publicly available information, they argued, adding Clearview is not in violation because “it built its database of faceprints from photographs that were publicly available on the internet.”
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