Clearview AI and Facial Recognition Privacy Cases Quiz

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1. What does the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) require before a company collects biometric identifiers?
   • A notice posted on the company's website
   • Informed written consent from the person
   • Registration of the database with the state
   • Deletion of the data within 30 days
2. What did the 2022 ACLU settlement permanently bar Clearview from doing?
   • Operating any website accessible in Illinois
   • Selling access to any US police department
   • Selling access to its faceprint database to most private companies nationwide
   • Collecting photos from news websites
3. Which three European data protection authorities each fined Clearview 20 million euros in 2022?
   • Italy, Greece and France
   • Germany, Spain and Ireland
   • Sweden, Denmark and Finland
   • Belgium, Austria and Poland
4. Why does the size of the face gallery affect false matches in a system like Clearview's?
   • Larger galleries force the system to use lower-resolution images
   • Larger galleries always reduce errors because there is more training data
   • Gallery size only affects search speed, not accuracy
   • The more faces in the database, the more likely a lookalike scores above the threshold
5. What does a Clearview-style query actually return?
   • A verified legal identity for the person in the photo
   • A yes-or-no answer about whether the person has a criminal record
   • Candidate images ranked by similarity, with links to where they were found
   • A single match guaranteed to be correct above 99 percent
6. What does the EU AI Act prohibit that relates directly to Clearview's business model?
   • All use of facial recognition by private companies
   • Building facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV
   • Storing any photograph of an EU resident outside the EU
   • Using neural networks for image classification
7. Why does deleting the source photos while keeping the face templates fail to solve compliance?
   • The embedding itself is treated as biometric data under BIPA and the GDPR
   • Templates can be converted back into perfect photographs
   • Laws only regulate templates, not photographs
   • Deleting photos is illegal under European law
8. How was the consumer BIPA class action against Clearview unusually structured?
   • Clearview paid each class member a fixed cash sum immediately
   • The case was dismissed with no compensation
   • Class members received free subscriptions to the service
   • Class members received a share of the company's future value instead of cash up front