Fight for the Future Facial recognition company Clearview AI is now the subject of a joint investigation from privacy regulators from the UK and Australia. The UK's ICO and Australia's OAIC are looking into Clearview AI's "use of 'scraped' data and biometrics of individuals." Clearview AI was brought into the public eye by a New York Times investigation in January, which revealed the firm scraped billions of images from the internet without consent to build its facial recognition app. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that boasted of scraping billions of photos from the internet, is being investigated by data privacy watchdogs in the UK and Australia. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI on Thursday.