Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can't Do Anything About It

Matthias Marx says his face has been stolen. The German activist's visage is pale and wide, topped with messy, blond hair. So far, these features have been mapped and monetized by three companies without his permission. As has happened to billions of others, his face has been turned into a search term without his consent. In 2020 Marx read about Clearview AI, a company that says it has scraped billions of photos from the internet to create a huge database of faces. By uploading a single photo, Clearview's clients, which include law enforcement agencies, can use the company's facial recognition technology to unearth other online photos featuring the same face.