Pissed off by an obvious lack of cooperation from Clearview, Wolfsen mentioned that the regulator is ready to pursue authorized actions in opposition to members of the corporate’s board of administrators.
“Clearview is an American firm with out an institution in Europe. Different information safety authorities have already fined Clearview at varied earlier events, however the firm doesn’t appear to adapt its conduct. That’s the reason the Dutch DPA is on the lookout for methods to ensure that Clearview stops the violations. Amongst different issues, by investigating if the administrators of the corporate might be held personally chargeable for the violations,” Wolfsen mentioned. “Such (a) firm can not proceed to violate the rights of Europeans and get away with it. Actually not on this critical method and on this large scale. We are actually going to analyze if we will maintain the administration of the corporate personally liable and high-quality them for guiding these violations. That legal responsibility already exists if administrators know that the GDPR is being violated, have the authority to cease that, however omit to take action, and on this approach consciously settle for these violations.”
The regulator added that Clearview responded in a letter however didn’t explicitly dispute the findings. “Clearview has not objected to this choice and is due to this fact unable to enchantment in opposition to the high-quality,” he mentioned.
