SurveillanceHigh
Finnish Police Were Reportedly Reprimanded After National Bureau of Investigation Unit Allegedly Used Clearview AI to Identify Potential Abuse Victims
- Occurred
- Jan 15, 2020
- Published
- Oct 7, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Facial recognition system developers
- Clearview AI
Deployers
- Law enforcement
- Government of Finland
- Finnish National Police Board
- Finnish National Bureau of Investigation
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- People whose images were uploaded to Clearview AI
- Minors
- Child sexual abuse victims
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Police facial recognition trial deemed illegal for processing special personal data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8