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Court vacates Clearview AI's equity-based biometric settlement

Clearview AI settled a nationwide biometric class action over scraped facial images by giving the class a 23% equity stake worth about $51.75 million. On 13 July 2026 the Seventh Circuit vacated the settlement's approval because part of the class had no separate representative, and sent the case back.

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