{"id":136589,"date":"2022-03-10T02:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/clearview-ai-fined-e20m-for-collecting-italians-biometric-data"},"modified":"2022-03-10T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:24:55","slug":"clearview-ai-fined-e20m-for-collecting-italians-biometric-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/clearview-ai-fined-e20m-for-collecting-italians-biometric-data","title":{"rendered":"Clearview AI fined \u20ac20M for collecting Italians\u2019 biometric data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clearview-ai-fined-e20m-for-collecting-italians-biometric-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Italian privacy guarantor (GPDP) has imposed a fine of \u20ac20,000,000 on Clearview AI for implementing a biometric monitoring network in Italy without acquiring people\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n<p>This decision resulted from a proceeding that launched in February 2021, following relevant complaints about GDPR violations that stemmed directly from Clearview\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the investigation revealed that the American facial recognition software company maintains a database of 10 billion images of people\u2019s faces, including Italians, who had their faces extracted from public website profiles and online videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian privacy guarantor (GPDP) has imposed a fine of \u20ac20,000,000 on Clearview AI for implementing a biometric monitoring network in Italy without acquiring people\u2019s consent. This decision resulted from a proceeding that launched in February 2021, following relevant complaints about GDPR violations that stemmed directly from Clearview\u2019s operations. More specifically, the investigation revealed that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}