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. Clearview AI received yet another fine for its biometric profiling activities in Europe, this time for illegally collecting and using data belonging to French citizens without their knowledge. The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), France's data protection authority, imposed a 20 million euros penalty against the American company after a lengthy investigation and an unfruitful cooperation attempt. Clearview markets facial recognition tools to companies, individuals, and law enforcement, boasting its algorithm can detect any individual with "99% accuracy" in a database with 30 billion images of faces.