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44 incidents closest to “Clearview AI 2.0” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system could identify strangers via smart glasses and collected biometric data from users and non-users without consent.
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এআই দিয়ে যারা ৮০’র দশকের ট্রেন্ডিং ছবি বানিয়েছিলেন তাদের তথ্য ফাঁস! - Newszonebd
Information has been leaked of individuals who used AI to generate trending images styled after the 1980s. The incident was reported by Newszonebd.
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The facial recognition system matched Angela Lipps to a suspect's photo, leading to her arrest and detention.
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Rona Wang, an MIT graduate, used Playground AI to generate a professional LinkedIn photo. The AI altered her appearance, giving her lighter skin and blue eyes, making her look Caucasian. The incident sparked discussion about racial bias in AI. Playground AI's founder acknowledged the issue and expressed a desire to fix it.
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Facebook removed over 900 accounts, pages, and groups associated with The BL, a network that used AI-generated profile photos to spread pro-Trump content to 55 million users. Researchers from Graphika and DFRLab found that the network used generative adversarial networks to create fake faces, marking the first large-scale use of AI-generated images in an influence operation. The accounts were operated from Vietnam and the US, and were linked to The Epoch Times. Facebook's action came after the researchers identified the inauthentic activity.
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Allegedly extracted biometric identifiers from photographs without consent to train facial recognition and generative AI systems
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A hacker used AI to deepfake an employee's voice and trick a Retool staff member into providing a multi-factor authentication code. The attacker sent phishing SMS messages and then called the employee, impersonating an IT team member with a synthetic voice. This allowed the hacker to add their own device to the employee's account and access internal systems, compromising 27 cloud customers. Retool revoked the access and disclosed the incident, blaming a weakness in Google Authenticator's cloud sync feature.
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AI facial recognition — Wrongful Arrest Leads to $10M Lawsuit The Korea Daily
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Meta harvested user photographs and created biometric faceprints to enable a smart-glasses system that could identify strangers in public without consent.
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巴西聖保羅AI人臉辨識辦案 啟用首年誤逮率8%惹議 - 公視新聞網PNN
São Paulo introduced AI facial recognition in late 2024, integrating 40,000 cameras. In 2025 robberies fell 15% and nearly 2,900 fugitives were arrested, but the initial false positive rate exceeded 8%, leading to wrongful detentions including elderly people, patients, and people with expired warrants or civil debts, prompting privacy and over-policing concerns.
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Hangzhou police have cracked a case in which a gang allegedly used an overseas multimodal AI model to create face-swapped videos that defeated facial-recognition login checks on major platforms. The group is accused of stealing users' photos, generating videos of actions such as blinking or turning the head, and then accessing victims' accounts to collect personal information, which was sold to fraud gangs for nearly 200,000 yuan. Four suspects were arrested in Anhui, Guizhou and Zhejiang in August and placed in criminal detention. Police warned the public to manage personal information securely and urged platforms to strengthen facial authentication.
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Meta AI Glasses captured faces, bodies, voices, and personal information of millions of bystanders, including minors, without consent and funneled the data to human reviewers for AI training.
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Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app for storage. The company used those photos to train its Ever AI facial recognition system and offered the technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military. Most users interviewed said they were unaware of this use, and privacy experts described it as an invasion of privacy. Ever stated its privacy policy disclosed the practice and added an opt-out pop-up after being contacted by NBC News.
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France's privacy watchdog CNIL fined US facial recognition firm Clearview AI €20 million for unlawfully collecting and processing facial images of individuals without consent. The company scraped billions of images from websites and social media, selling access to law enforcement. Clearview AI denied being subject to EU law and refused to delete the data, claiming it was impossible to determine French residency from public photos. The CNIL ordered the firm to stop collecting data and delete existing data within two months or face daily fines.
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Amateur 'sedition hunters' used the PimEyes facial recognition tool to search for suspected rioters from the U.S. Capitol attack. The tool scans over 900 million online images to find matches. Researchers warn that the tool could be abused for stalking or other invasive purposes. The incident highlights the risks of publicly available facial recognition technology.
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Lockport City School District deployed SN Technologies' AEGIS face and weapons detection system in January 2020. Parents and the New York Civil Liberties Union allege the system misidentifies Black people more often than white people and falsely detects weapons such as broom handles. A lawsuit was filed against the New York State Education Department seeking to ban facial recognition in schools. SN Technologies denied misleading the district.
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After a jewel heist at the Louvre Museum, multiple AI-generated videos claiming to be CCTV footage of the robbery surfaced on social media. The videos, created using OpenAI's Sora 2, depicted different versions of the burglars and their methods. They were shared widely, misleading viewers into believing they were real. The incident highlights the potential for AI-generated misinformation.
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South Korea's Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Science and ICT are building an AI identification and tracking system using facial recognition for airport immigration. It was revealed that over 170 million facial photos of citizens and foreigners were transferred to private companies for AI training without proper legal basis. Civil society groups held a press conference on November 9, 2021, condemning the project as an unprecedented violation of information human rights and demanding its immediate halt. They argue the data transfer violates the Personal Information Protection Act and have requested a meeting with the Minister of Justice.
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Ukraine's defence ministry has started using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology to identify Russian assailants and the dead, according to reports. Clearview provided free access to its system, which holds over 10 billion images including from Russian social media. Critics warn that the technology could misidentify people at checkpoints and in battle, potentially harming civilians. Clearview says it should not be used as the sole source of identification.
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In late 2022, Graphika observed the pro-Chinese influence operation Spamouflage promoting videos featuring AI-generated fictitious people. The footage was created using a commercial AI video platform from a UK company. The videos were low-quality and received fewer than 300 views, but Graphika warns that such tools could enable more convincing deception at scale.
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NewsGuard tested OpenAI's Sora 2 text-to-video tool and found it generated realistic videos advancing false claims 80% of the time when prompted. The videos included fabricated news reports about election fraud, immigration, and corporate announcements. Some videos went viral on social media, being mistaken for authentic footage. OpenAI stated it takes action against misuse.
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Sweden's data protection authority IMY fined the Swedish Police Authority €250,000 for unlawfully using Clearview AI's facial-recognition app. The police used the app between autumn 2019 and March 2020 without authorisation or a required data protection impact assessment. The IMY ordered the police to ensure Clearview AI deletes the data and to train employees to avoid future breaches.
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Workaround, an AI startup, published the COVID19 Mask Image Dataset in April 2020, containing more than 1,200 photographs of people wearing face masks scraped from Instagram without their knowledge or consent. The dataset was intended to help train facial recognition algorithms so they could identify people whose faces are partly covered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The firm's chief executive acknowledged that the people pictured were not asked for permission and were unaware they were included. Facebook said it was investigating and does not allow third parties to use photos in this way without consent.
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A Chicago woman, Isela Carmean, filed a class-action lawsuit against Macy's, alleging the department store used Clearview AI facial recognition technology to identify customers without their consent, violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The lawsuit claims Macy's sent customer images from store surveillance to Clearview's database to obtain personal information. Macy's declined to comment on the pending litigation.
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