Incident 267: Clearview AI Algorithm Built on Photos Scraped from Social Media Profiles without Consent

Description: Face-matching algorithm by Clearview AI was built using scraped images from social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook without user consent, violating social media site policies, and allegedly privacy regulations.

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Alleged: Clearview AI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed social media users , Instagram users and Facebook users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
267
Report Count
10
Incident Date
2017-06-15
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.