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Faceprint generation systems

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 26710 Report
Clearview AI Algorithm Built on Photos Scraped from Social Media Profiles without Consent

2017-06-15

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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Incident 1997 Report
Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

2019-04-01

Ever AI, now Paravision AI, allegedly failed to inform customers about the development and use of facial recognition that facilitates the sale of customers’ data to various businesses, a business model that critics said was an egregious violation of privacy.

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Incident 2542 Report
Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

2015-05-01

A class-action lawsuit alleged Google failing to provide notice, obtain informed written consent, or publish data retention policies about the collection, storage, and analysis of its face-grouping feature in Google Photos, which violated Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

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Incident 1091 Report
PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

2017-01-01

PimEyes offered its subscription-based AI service to anyone in the public to search for matching facial images across the internet, which critics said lacked public oversight and government rules to prevent itself from misuse such as stalking women.

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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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PimEyes

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

internet users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

PimEyes facial recognition search engine

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

PimEyes facial image database

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Facial image search engines

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

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Entity

Facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Biometric data processing systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Surveillance technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 109
    1 Report

    PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

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Entity

Facebook

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Entity

Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Entity

Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Entity

Facebook Tag Suggestions

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 122
    1 Report

    Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Entity

Ever AI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Ever AI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Ever AI facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 199
    7 Reports

    Ever AI Reportedly Deceived Customers about FRT Use in App

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Entity

Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 254
    2 Reports

    Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

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Entity

Illinois residents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 254
    2 Reports

    Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Google Photos users residing in Illinois

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 254
    2 Reports

    Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

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Entity

Google Photos users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 254
    2 Reports

    Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

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Entity

Google Photos Face Grouping

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 254
    2 Reports

    Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

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Entity

Clearview AI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

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Entity

Instagram users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

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Entity

Clearview AI facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

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Entity

Clearview AI facial image database

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 267
    10 Reports

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

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Entity

Transaction Cloud

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Public Mirror

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Lukasz Kowalczyk

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Giorgi Gobronidze

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Face Recognition Solutions

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

EMEA Robotics

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Does-125

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Denis Tatina

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Carribex

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Does 1-25

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Surveillance technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Facial recognition system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Nicholas Clayton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Misty McGraw

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Manuel Clayton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Amy Newton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

Amanda Curry

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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Entity

General public of Illinois

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 584
    1 Report

    Illinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA

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