Direct from the source: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-d...

The full PDF with the investigation results e.a. as sent to clearview: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/system/files?fi...

Can't the government already do the same using images from identity cards, passports, etc.? Is the problem mainly because it's a private company doing it? I genuinely want to better understand this issue.

If identification of dutch citizens are a part of the product for services rendered by Clearview AI, they should be punished severely for this. Same goes with any country, or person, who doesn't want to be a part of their scheme.

I think one day we will look back on this era, and think it is crazy that so much crime was committed in public and caught on video, and yet the government would usually not be able to take any action. They wouldn't be able to figure out who it was, and they wouldn't be able to find the criminal.

One day all of these things will be taken for granted because we will capture more and more video of public spaces, and AI facial recognition will be more accurate than human facial recognition.

From the actual article:

>[Clearview Chief Legal Officer] Mulcaire said in his statement that Clearview doesn't fall under EU data protection regulations.

>"Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR," he said.

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>The Dutch agency said that building the database and insufficiently informing people whose images appear in the database amounted to serious breaches of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.

> "Facial recognition is a highly intrusive technology, that you cannot simply unleash on anyone in the world," DPA chairman Aleid Wolfsen said in a statement.

> "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," he said.

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If you're pulling data from European Citizens from all over the internet, I'd imagine that the EU does get a say (since it's literally data processing of EU citizen data). I'd also expect that the EU could just make one of the other upstream suppliers of Clearview data responsible for enforcement.

‘Furious 7’ Is the Perfect Commentary on the Surveillance State https://www.vice.com/en/article/furious-7-is-the-perfect-com...

> Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR

That’s cute. I wonder where all the faces are coming from.

If having a facial recognition system of your citizens is immoral, then maybe the Netherlands government shouldn't have one either? Are the facial recognition systems of the Netherlands auditable? How can anyone be certain that they aren't being abused and used for political persecution?

I rarely root for EU’s heavy handed approach to tech regulation. But in this case, I am willing to pick up Pom-poms and cheer for them as loud as I am capable of

“Go eu go. Bankrupt those bastards and jail them all. Go eu go. Give it to them hard”