Fine · Italy
Clearview AI: EUR 20,000,000
- Authority
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Country
- Italy
- Date
- Decision of 10 February 2022
- Amount
- EUR 20,000,000, as imposed (not converted)
- Appeal status
- Unknown
- Provisions cited
- Article 5(1)(a), Article 5(1)(b), Article 5(1)(e), Article 6, Article 9, Article 12, Article 13, Article 14, Article 15, Article 27
What the fine was for (summary, not the official text)
Facial-recognition firm scraped billions of facial images, including of people in Italy, with no legal basis, without transparency, and without an EU representative; ordered to delete Italian data and stop collecting it.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
Only the authority's decision is authoritative. This is reference material, not legal advice.