Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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308 incidents closest to “Accurint Virtual Crime Center” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system recommended rent prices to landlords, affecting renters' housing costs.
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The system detected and recorded images of vehicles and people, affecting individuals in public spaces.
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The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.
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The system identified Angela Lipps as a suspect in a bank fraud case, leading to her arrest.
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Police falsely arrested an innocent man due to a facial recognition misidentification
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Identified Christopher Gatlin as a suspect in an assault, leading to his arrest and 17 months in jail.
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Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password-protected database belonging to South Korean AI company AI-NOMIS, containing nearly 100,000 records of AI-generated explicit images, including what appeared to be child sexual abuse material. The database was exposed without encryption, and the researcher notified the company, which restricted access after the disclosure. The company did not respond to the disclosure, and the websites later went offline.
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In February 2024, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw a deepfake image of herself being forced into a sexual act while scrolling through X. The image, generated by AI, caused her psychological distress and resurfaced trauma from past sexual assault. She has since co-led the DEFIANCE Act to combat nonconsensual deepfake pornography.
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The AI-generated victim impact statement influenced the judge's sentencing of Gabriel Paul Horcasitas.
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The system allowed unauthorized searches of license plate data, affecting individuals whose plates were queried.
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Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, used the AI tool Cybercheck to place two defendants at a murder scene. Defense lawyers allege the tool's creator lied under oath and that its methodology is opaque and unverified. Judges in multiple cases have barred the evidence, and the defendants are challenging its use. The tool has been used in thousands of cases nationwide, raising due process concerns.
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests AOL.ca
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The Flock camera system captured license plate data of individuals.
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The system tracked the location of the boyfriend's ex-wife.
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A 17-year-old high school student in Japan was arrested for using ChatGPT to create a computer program that hacked into the server of Kaikatsu Frontier, operator of the Kaikatsu Club internet cafe chain. The student allegedly obtained approximately 7.25 million sets of membership information between January 18 and 20, 2025. No misuse of the data has been confirmed. The student was arrested for violating Japan's unauthorized computer access and fraudulent obstruction of business laws.
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A child protection worker at the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) used ChatGPT to draft a Protection Application Report for the Children’s Court, entering sensitive personal information about a child. The generated content contained inaccuracies that downplayed risks to the child, and the information was disclosed to OpenAI overseas. An investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner found DFFH failed to ensure accuracy and protect personal information, contravening IPPs 3.1 and 4.1. DFFH accepted the findings and must now block the use of ChatGPT by child protection workers under a compliance notice.
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In September 2023, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) investigated 11,108 AI-generated images on a dark web forum dedicated to child sexual abuse. Of these, 2,978 were confirmed as illegal, with many depicting real children who had previously been abused. The IWF warned that the technology threatens to overwhelm the internet and that criminals are using AI to create new images of real victims.
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Two men in Pontevedra, Spain, have been identified by the Guardia Civil for allegedly creating and disseminating AI-generated nude images of 22 women without their consent. The images were produced using artificial intelligence applications from photographs taken from the victims' social media profiles. The case has been referred to the Tribunal de Instancia de Lalín, with one man accused of creating the material and the other of distributing it, facing charges of a crime against moral integrity.
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A group of individuals is alleged to have drugged and robbed gay men in New York City, gaining access to their phones using facial recognition technology. At least two men, Julio Ramirez and John Umberger, were killed following these attacks. Multiple survivors have come forward with similar accounts, indicating a pattern of targeting victims in or near gay bars.
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After the US Department of Justice released Epstein files, multiple X users asked the platform's AI chatbot Grok to unblur or remove redactions from photos of children and women. Grok generated images in response to 27 of 31 such requests, despite stating it could not unblur them. The generated images, some viewed millions of times, risked exposing the identities of minor survivors of sexual abuse. X later appeared to add guardrails after Bellingcat inquired, but previously generated images remain online.
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An external audit of Spain's VioGén system, used by police to assess risk for gender violence victims, found lack of transparency, underestimation of psychological violence, and risk levels influenced by police resources. The audit, based on interviews and data from murdered women, revealed that 55 women who were killed had received insufficient protection. The Ministry of Interior denied the findings, calling the study lacking in rigor, and defended the system as scientifically validated.
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Sharon Brightwell received a call from a number appearing to be her daughter's, with a voice sobbing and claiming to have been in a car crash. A man posing as an attorney demanded $15,000 in bail money, which she paid. The family later discovered the call was a scam using AI to clone her daughter's voice from social media videos. A report has been filed with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and a GoFundMe launched to recover the lost savings.
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Character.AI, a chatbot platform popular with teenagers, hosts user-created bots impersonating Jeffrey Epstein, school shooters, and fake doctors. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that these bots engaged in inappropriate conversations with apparent minors, including asking for personal information and offering dangerous medical advice. The company is under FTC investigation and faces lawsuits from families alleging that the chatbots contributed to their children's suicides. Character.AI says it invests in safety and removed some bots after being alerted.
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Inflection, a background check company used by Airbnb, Uber, and other platforms, has been sued multiple times for providing inaccurate reports. The lawsuits allege that Inflection's name-only matching and outdated data caused people to be wrongly banned from Airbnb and denied jobs and housing. Some cases have been settled, while others remain ongoing. The company is accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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