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Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting
- Occurred
- Sep 3, 2024
- Published
- Sep 3, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Clearview AI was reportedly fined $33.7 million by the Dutch data protection authority for allegedly creating an illegal facial recognition database by scraping billions of images from the Internet without consent. The company allegedly used AI to convert these images into biometric data and sold the service to law enforcement. This act was reportedly in violation of privacy laws and the GDPR.
Developers
- Clearview AI
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- Clearview AI
Harmed parties
- General public
- General public of the Netherlands
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Tags
- Facial recognition
- Clearview AI
- DPA
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Clearview AI fined for unauthorized biometric data scraping violating GDPR privacy laws.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8