PrivacyHigh
Clearview AI Algorithm Built on Photos Scraped from Social Media Profiles without Consent
- Occurred
- Jun 15, 2017
- Published
- Oct 20, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Clearview AI
Deployers
- Clearview AI
Harmed parties
- Social media users
- Instagram users
- Facebook users
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Clearview AI scraped personal photos without consent, violating privacy regulations and platform policies.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8