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The Dutch are having none of Clearview AI collecting your pictures

The Dutch are having none of Clearview AI collecting your pictures

Technology
GDPR fines keep collecting for Clearview AI-- a US-based start-up understood for its comprehensive (and possibly risky) facial acknowledgment services. Following comparable steps by information defense authorities in France, Italy, and Greece, the Netherlands' DPA today strike Clearview with a EUR30.5 mn fine for its "unlawful" database of images. This brings the business's overall fines in the EU to EUR90.5 mn. Clearview uses its facial acknowledgment services to intelligence and investigative services, which can take advantage of a database of over 50 billion facial images. For this database, the start-up is gathering images from public web sources. This consists of social networks profiles set to public mode. In essence, this indicates that an image you or I might have on Facebook or In...