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Dutch regulator slaps Clearview AI with $33 million fine and threatens executive liability


Clearview has faced fines in several other countries.

By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. The American facial recognition company, which built a database of images scraped from social media platforms, has been the target of regulators around the world for alleged privacy violations. The company also allegedly continued to violatethe law after the Dutch authorities began investigating it, which the DPA said could lead to an additional fine of up to 5.1 million Euros.

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