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Australia orders Clearview AI to stop collection and delete face data

Australia's privacy regulator found that Clearview AI breached national privacy law and ordered it to stop collecting Australians' facial images and biometric templates and destroy previously collected data.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM45confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

A binding regulator determination imposed collection cessation and deletion duties on a deployed mass facial-recognition system, directly strengthening privacy and human control. Later enforcement difficulty tempers the magnitude of practical protection.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 45 · confidence 97

    New November 2021 binding facial-recognition governance event absent from the durable corpus.

    12 Aug 2026

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