The controversial software provider broke Canadian privacy laws by allowing its clients to identify people in photos by matching them with its database of more than three billion images scraped from the internet, the federal privacy commissioner and three of its provincial counterparts found. (The Logic)

Talking point: The decision is another blow for Clearview, which exited Canada in July 2020 after indefinitely suspending its contract with the RCMP, its last remaining client in the country. Clearview argued the images in its database were publicly available and that it benefited law enforcement, so its business needs should outweigh any potential privacy violations. The privacy commissioners’ rejection of those arguments sets a precedent for where Canada draws the line in that balance. We’ll find out where Australia and the U.K. draw their own lines when they announce the results of a similar joint investigation into the firm.