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Clearview AI facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 4124 Report
Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

2020-01-15

Finland's Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman reportedly reprimanded the National Police Board after a National Bureau of Investigation child sexual exploitation unit allegedly used Clearview AI in late 2019 or early 2020 to identify potential child sexual abuse victims. Four NBI users reportedly made about 120 searches during a free trial without controller approval or prior assessment of how uploaded biometric data would be handled.

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Incident 5583 Report
Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

2020-08-07

Black Lives Matter activists alleged being targeted for arrest by New York Police using facial recognition, interfering with their right to protest.

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Incident 7812 Report
Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

2024-09-03

Clearview AI was reportedly fined $33.7 million by the Dutch data protection authority for allegedly creating an illegal facial recognition database by scraping billions of images from the Internet without consent. The company allegedly used AI to convert these images into biometric data and sold the service to law enforcement. This act was reportedly in violation of privacy laws and the GDPR.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Finnish National Bureau of Investigation

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Government of Finland

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Law enforcement

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Finnish National Police Board

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Clearview AI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

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Entity

Facial recognition technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Child sexual abuse victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Minors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

People whose images were uploaded to Clearview AI

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Clearview AI facial image database

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

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Entity

Facial recognition technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Law enforcement facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

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Entity

Biometric data processing systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 412
    4 Reports

    Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims

  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

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Entity

New York City Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Surveillance technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Derrick Ingram

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Black Lives Matter activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Black people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

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Entity

General public of New York City

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Democratic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

Surveillance technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 558
    3 Reports

    Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest

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Entity

General public of the Netherlands

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 781
    2 Reports

    Clearview AI Reportedly Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting

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