The Netherlands fines an American artificial intelligence company €30.5 million
Author：Eve Cole
Update Time：2024-11-22 18:48:01
The Dutch Data Protection Authority announced on the 3rd that it had imposed a fine of 30.5 million euros on the American "Clear Vision" artificial intelligence company for illegally collecting tens of billions of facial photos to provide facial recognition services . The Dutch data protection agency said the artificial intelligence company Clear Vision automatically scraped photos of faces from the Internet without people's knowledge, illegally building a database containing more than 30 billion face photos , including those of many Dutch people. photo. The company also converts each photo into a unique biometric code for customers to use.
△Data chart "Clear Vision" The facial recognition service provided by the artificial intelligence company can help its customers identify the identities of people in pictures and videos. This service can be used for intelligence analysis, market research and other activities. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said that the services provided by Clear Vision artificial intelligence company violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, and any Dutch organization using the company's services may also face heavy fines . The Dutch Data Protection Authority also pointed out that Clear Vision did not challenge the penalty decision and therefore had no right to appeal . In addition, because the "Clear Vision" artificial intelligence company has previously been punished by network regulators in other EU countries, but the company's management failed to prevent the violations in time, the Dutch Data Protection Authority plans to further study whether to hold the company's managers personally liable .
