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PERMANENT OFFICIAL-EVIDENCE DOSSIER

FRGDPRfinal

Fine and compliance order against Clearview

CNIL imposed a €20 million fine and ordered Clearview to stop collecting and using data of people in France without a legal basis and to delete data.

!A published action is evidence of official activity—not automatically a finding of infringement.
Authority
Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés
Subject
Clearview AI
Technology / system
Facial recognition
Action type
fine and corrective order
Procedural status
final
Action date
17 October 2022
Publication date
20 October 2022
Effective date
not published
Officially stated amount
€20,000,000
Legal basis
GDPR

Exact technology passage

“facial recognition software”

Location in source: Decision, company description

Official primary evidence

CNIL-SAN-2022-019Decision SAN-2022-019 concerning Clearview AI20 October 2022 · EN · decisionOpen official source ↗