Despite formally pulling out of the EU market, Clearview AI continues to face legal difficulties as its facial recognition database has drawn a €30.5 million ($33.7 million) GDPR fine from the Dutch data protection agency.
Biometric privacy lawsuit names Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft as violators of BIPA for their use of IBM's facial recognition database to train their own facial recognition systems.
Microsoft’s recent deletion of its facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of nearly 100,000 people could be their way to show need to regulate facial recognition technology.
