Face Search Firm Beats Privacy Watchdog’s £7.5 Million Fine in Court

The First-tier Tribunal ruled that the Information Commissioner’s sanction against U.S.-based Clearview AI over the storing of UK data is unlawful.

A cellphone is held with the logo of facial recognition company Clearview AI Inc. on the screen in front of the business webpage. T. Schneider/Shutterstock

A facial recognition firm fined more than £7.5 million by a privacy watchdog for storing the personal data of UK residents has overturned the sanction in court.

Clearview AI—which collected billions of online images of people’s faces and data from across the world—won the appeal on Wednesday, according to the BBC.