Organisations
Who regulates, researches and helps
Regulators, courts, research bodies, help lines and advocacy groups that shape the field.
Regulators
- Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés France's data protection authority: its powers under the GDPR, the Clearview AI fine and penalty, its facial recognition guidance, and how to complain. France
- European Data Protection Board The EU body that coordinates national data protection authorities: its powers, its facial recognition and scraping guidance, and its 2026 smart glasses statement. European Union (Brussels)
- Information Commissioner's Office The UK data protection regulator: what it enforces, its biometric guidance, the Clearview AI fine and appeals, and how to complain about a face search engine. United Kingdom
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Australia's privacy regulator: its powers under the Privacy Act, the Clearview AI determination and the 2024 decision not to pursue it, and how to complain. Australia
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Canada's federal privacy regulator: its role under PIPEDA, the 2021 Clearview AI findings with the provincial commissioners, and how to complain. Canada
Government bodies
Research bodies
Non-profits and advocacy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation The US digital rights group: its litigation and campaigns on face recognition, the Atlas of Surveillance, BIPA briefs, and its self-defence guides. United States
- Internet Freedom Foundation India's digital rights group: Project Panoptic's tracker of facial recognition deployments, its legal work on privacy and the DPDP Act, and how to use it. India
- noyb, European Center for Digital Rights The European privacy litigation non-profit: its GDPR complaints against Clearview AI and its 2026 lawsuit over the Hamburg regulator's inaction on PimEyes. Austria
Help lines
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children The US clearinghouse for child exploitation reports: the CyberTipline, the Take It Down hashing service for minors' intimate images, and how to use them. United States
- StopNCII.org The hash-based service for adults' intimate images: who runs it, how hashing works, which platforms participate, who is eligible and what it cannot do. United Kingdom (global service)