US facial recognition company Clearview AI was fined €30.5 million euros ($33.7m) for building an ‘illegal’ database by the Dutch Data Protection agency (DPA). It was also issued a €5 million penalty ($5.5 million) for non-compliance.
Clearview is an American company that deals in facial recognition services – selling to investigative and intelligence services, including to police departments and government agencies. It claims to have collected over 50 billion images – primarily by ‘scraping’ from the internet.
