the netherlands fined an american ai company for capturing billions of facial photos
2024-09-04
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the dutch data protection authority announced on september 3 that it had fined the us company clear vision ai 30.5 million euros for illegally collecting tens of billions of facial photos for facial recognition services. these services violated the eu general data protection regulation, and any dutch organization using the company's services could also face huge fines.
the dutch data protection authority said that clear vision ai automatically grabbed facial photos from the internet without people's knowledge and illegally established a database of more than 30 billion facial photos, including many photos of dutch people. the company also converted each photo into a unique biometric code for customers to use. the facial recognition service provided by clear vision ai can help its customers identify the identities of people in pictures and video materials. this service can be used for intelligence analysis, market research and other activities.
the dutch dpa also pointed out that clear horizons ai did not object to the penalty decision and therefore has no right to appeal. in addition, since clear horizons ai was previously punished by other eu cyber regulators but the company's management did not stop the violations in time, the dutch dpa plans to further study whether to hold the company's managers personally responsible.
editor: zhou jie and zhang yufei (internship)
editor: deng aihua
