The Dutch data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition startup Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros or $33.7 million over its creation of what the agency called an “illegal database” of billion of photos of faces.

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights.

When an Orange County woman returned home from a shopping trip shortly before Christmas in 2021, she was unaware someone standing outside her house may have been watching her through the windows.

An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected.

Privacy campaign groups filed a slew of legal complaints Thursday with European regulators against Clearview AI.