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Clearview AI—Controversial Facial Recognition Firm—Fined $33 Million by the Netherlands’ Data Protection Watchdog For ‘Illegal Database’
The Dutch data protection watchdog said Clearview had amassed an illegal and “highly intrusive” database of 30 billion facial images to provide facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies.
Controversial U.S. facial recognition company Clearview AI, reportedly embraced U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, has been fined more than $30 million by the Netherlands’ data protection watchdog on Tuesday for building “an illegal database” containing billions of faces taken from social media and the internet. Wolfsen stressed that while there are legitimate and safe uses of facial recognition technologies—notably for safety and the detection of criminals—the technology should be reserved for “competent authorities in highly exceptional cases” and under the strict guidance of regulators to ensure appropriate use. It quietly built up its database of faces from images available on websites like Instagram, Facebook, Venmo and YouTube and developed facial recognition software it said can identify people with a very high degree of accuracy.
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