“Facial recognition is a highly intrusive technology that you cannot simply unleash on anyone in the world,”
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Clearview about €30.5 million for a database of more than 50 billion scraped face photos. Clearview says EU law does not apply because it has no office in the Netherlands or the EU, and it called the decision “unlawful.” The UK, Australia, France and Italy have already gone after it. Fines bounce off a company with no European address, so the regulator now wants to make its managers personally liable.