Clearview AI—Controversial Facial Recognition Firm—Fined $33 Million For ‘Illegal Database’
ForbesAUG 20 2024
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.
The Dutch DPA continued by stating that Clearview had "seriously violated" the EU's GDPR "on several points," claiming that the company "should never have built the database" and has failed to stop regulatory violations or cooperate with requests for access.