2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
- publishedAt:
Not provided→ 2024-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting
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.
Read original source ↗ Open in workspace
- recordType
- incident-report
- evidenceStatus
- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2024-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2024-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
Observed changes
AIIC observation times, not verified publisher revision times. Up to eight recent revisions.