Dutch regulator fines Clearview AI $33.6 million for GDPR violations
Non-compliance has authorities are looking into holding company directors personally responsible
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Clearview AI wants to pay Americans pennies in company equity for violating their privacy
WTF?! The endlessly beleaguered facial recognition company Clearview AI is making news again. However, it's not over the startup's image scraping practices, which are questionable at best. This time, the company is attempting to keep itself out of bankruptcy by offering millions of plaintiffs in a privacy class action a stake in the company worth about 30 cents per claimant after lawyer fees.
Clearview AI fined for violating the European GDPR privacy law
In context: French authorities have imposed the maximum possible fine against Clearview AI, a biometric startup selling its controversial facial recognition technology to governments and law enforcement worldwide. The company must delete the data already acquired on French citizens or face an additional €100,000 fine per day.
UK privacy watchdog fines Clearview £7.5 million and orders database purge
Clearview says the UK has no jurisdiction to hand it fines
Clearview AI close to being awarded a US patent for its facial recognition tech
The problematic march of facial recognition systems continues
Privacy commission demands Clearview AI delete all facial recognition data collected in Australia
Regulator says biometric data collection without consent is illegal, regardless of whether the data is public or not
Privacy watchdogs take legal action against Clearview AI in five countries
The groups say its data collection goes 'far beyond' what online users could ever expect
Bipartisan Senate bill would block law enforcement agencies from purchasing Clearview AI data
And any other 'data brokers'
Clearview AI faces more scrutiny from UK and Australian privacy commissioners
It seems the startup has spent more time fending off investigators than actually developing its software
Clearview AI's cybersecurity in question after researchers discover unsecured repository
Company assets, intellectual properties, and 70,000 surveillance video were found exposed
Vermont sues Clearview AI for violating state privacy laws
Its controversial app has seen no end to the backlash
'Intruder' steals Clearview AI's entire client list
It was due to a 'vulnerability,' but there was 'no compromise of servers, systems, or network'
Facebook adds itself to the list of companies demanding Clearview cease scraping its websites
Startup has been told to stay off YouTube and Google and now Instagram and Facebook
Google and YouTube want Clearview AI to stop scraping images and video for facial recognition database
It turns out the company that could do it the best is opposed to the practice
Twitter wants Clearview AI to remove photos of people it has scraped from its service
Another privacy nightmare is waiting to happen