Dutch privacy watchdog fines Clearview AI 30.5 mln euros

THE HAGUE, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Dutch Data Protection Authority has imposed a 30.5 million euro (33.5 million U.S. dollars) fine on Clearview AI, a U.S. company, for illegally collecting billions of facial images for its facial recognition services.

Clearview AI, which operates without a European presence, has built a vast database of over 30 billion facial images, including those of Dutch citizens, by scrapi