Authority
Garante
Country
Italy
Date Issued
March 10, 2022
Industry
Technology
Summary
Italy's Garante fined Clearview AI €20 million for collecting biometric data of Italian citizens by scraping billions of images from the internet without legal basis for its facial recognition database. The company's mass harvesting of personal biometric data violated GDPR requirements for lawful processing.
Violation Types
Legal BasisData CollectionSecurity
Articles Violated
Art. 5 GDPRArt. 6 GDPRArt. 9 GDPR
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