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Clearview AI Fined $33 Million By Dutch Watchdog For ‘Illegal Database’ Supporting Facial Recognition

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  • US facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined approximately $33.7M by the Netherland's data protection authority for breaching the European Union's General Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  • Releasing a statement on Tuesday, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) claimed that Clearview holds "an illegal database with billions of photos of faces," including Dutch citizens, which have been scraped from the internet without consent.


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