One facial-recognition company has been fined roughly €90 million by four European regulators for collecting people's faces without asking, and ordered to delete data in Australia and Canada. Over the same period, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid it $12.75 million — one of those the largest facial-recognition purchase ICE has made. Its American class-action settlement was paid in company shares rather than cash. One arm of government is penalising what another arm is buying, and nothing in this record shows the two ever meeting.
- Clearview AI appears in 15 of the 46 litigation records — the most of any single company
- Fines: Italy, France, Greece and the Netherlands totalling about €90.5m, plus a €5.2m penalty for non-payment
- ICE awards recorded FY25 $9m and FY26 $3.75m
- US settlement paid as roughly 23% of company equity, not cash
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