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Alberta’s personal information protection law ruled partly unconstitutional | Globalnews.ca

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Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby upheld order to stop facial recognition company from collecting images of Albertans .

Clearview AI scrapes the internet and social media for images of people and adds them to a database, which it markets to law enforcement agencies as a facial recognition tool.

The company applied for a judicial review of the order as well as a ruling on the constitutionality of Alberta 's personal information protection legislation.

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