An article in WIRED tells the story of Matthias Marx, a German activist and security researcher at the IT security company Security Research Labs. Matthias has spent the last two and half years fighting to regain control of his face after he discovered Clearview AI had obtained two photos of him. The revelation was a wake-up call, "I'm no longer in control of what people do with my data." Then in February 2020, he filed a complaint with the Hamberg data protection authority (DPA). His complaint was the first filed against Clearview AI in Europe. Two other companies, Pimeyes and Public Mirror have also obtained images of Matthias' face. What began in 2020 has ballooned into a much bigger issue. Now, he's campaigning to stop companies from collecting pictures of Europeans altogether. The question is, what can regulators do?
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