“‘Facial recognition is a highly intrusive technology, that you cannot simply unleash on anyone in the world’, Dutch DPA chairman Aleid Wolfsen says. ‘If there is a photo of you on the Internet – and doesn’t that apply to all of us? – then you can end up in the database of Clearview and be tracked. This is not a doom scenario from a scary film. Nor is it something that could only be done in China.’ Clearview says that it provides services to intelligence and investigative services outside the European Union (EU) only. ‘That is bad enough as it is’, Wolfsen says. ‘This really shouldn’t go any further. We have to draw a very clear line at incorrect use of this sort of technology.’”

Source : Dutch DPA imposes a fine on Clearview because of illegal data collection for facial recognition | Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens