Fine · France
Clearview AI: EUR 20,000,000
- Authority
- Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
- Country
- France
- Date
- Decision of 17 October 2022
- Amount
- EUR 20,000,000, as imposed (not converted)
- Appeal status
- Unknown
- Provisions cited
- Article 6, Article 12, Article 15, Article 17, Article 31
What the fine was for (summary, not the official text)
Facial-recognition firm scraped photos of people in France from the web with no legal basis, ignored access and erasure requests and did not cooperate with the CNIL; ordered to stop and delete, with a daily penalty.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
Only the authority's decision is authoritative. This is reference material, not legal advice.