"The complaint focuses largely on Clearview's apparent disregard for fines from France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Aside from the UK - where Clearview recently lost its appeal of a $10 million fine from the Information Commissioner's Office - the company has yet to pay other fines totaling more than $100 million, Noyb claims. "EU data protection authorities did not come up with a way to enforce its fines and bans against the US company, allowing Clearview AI to effectively dodge the law," said Noyb in its announcement today."
"Clearview AI claims it has collected more than 60 billion images to help law enforcement agencies improve facial recognition tech. Scraping data is not inherently illegal, however, Clearview's sweeping collection of social media photos for commercial gain has repeatedly violated GDPR regulations across Europe. Austria ruled the company's practices illegal in 2023, though it imposed no fine."
Noyb filed a criminal complaint with Austrian public prosecutors against Clearview AI and its executives for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train facial recognition algorithms. The complaint invokes Article 84 of the GDPR, which allows EU member states to pursue proportionate punishments, including criminal proceedings, for data protection violations. Noyb alleges Clearview ignored fines from France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK and has not paid more than $100 million in penalties. Clearview claims to have collected over 60 billion images for law enforcement. Austria previously ruled the practices illegal in 2023 but did not impose a fine.
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