Clearview AI—Controversial Facial Recognition Firm—Fined $33 Million For ‘Illegal Database’
ForbesSEP 2024
Now totalling nearly $100M in European fines alone, Clearview continues to engage in highly illegal and unethical activity by refusing to remove EU data from their systems. Facial recognition is a surveillance tool that continues to attract mounting opposition, threatening individual privacy and promoting dystopian control mechanisms.
Despite widespread public outrage, Clearview AI's controversial business model highlights the continued limitations of current cross-border AI regulation. Without international agreements, there is little Europe can do to force the US company to either pay up or wipe its illegal data.
There is a 60% chance that an international AI regulatory agency for the oversight of transformative AI systems will be established before 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.