Incident 412: Finland Police's Facial Recognition Trial to Identify Sexual Abuse Victims Deemed Illegal
Description: Finland's National Police Board was reprimanded for illegal processing of special categories of personal data in a facial recognition trial to identify potential victims of child sexual abuse.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Clearview AI developed an AI system deployed by , which harmed Finland National Bureau of Investigation.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
412
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2020-01-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
poliisi.fi · 2021
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has discovered within its activities a possible information security incident involving personal data and has made a report on the incident to the National Police Board. The alleged incident took p…
yle.fi · 2021
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Officers at Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have used the controversial facial recognition app Clearview AI, even though its use was not widely known within the organisation, according to documents seen by Yle.
The matter w…
buzzfeednews.com · 2021
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Law enforcement agencies and government organizations from 24 countries outside the United States used a controversial facial recognition technology called Clearview AI, according to internal company data reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
That dat…
edpb.europa.eu · 2021
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Background information
- Date of final decision: 20 September 2021
- Cross-border case or national case: National case
- Controller: National Police Board
- Legal Reference: Art. 14 in the Act on the Processing of Personal Data in Criminal Matters…
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.