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Clearview AI

What the automated decision is: Clearview AI matches a probe photo of a person against a database of scraped online face images (it claims 70+ billion) and returns candidate identities that police use as investigative leads.

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Made by
Clearview AI, Inc.
About the vendor
  • Clearview AI, Inc.'s chief executive is Hal Lambert.
Products
Clearview AI 2.0
In court
0 cases name it as a party
Where we have looked

Searched through CourtListener / RECAP, last read 2026-10-08:

  • US federal district, appellate and bankruptcy dockets — 235 courts105 district, 14 appellate, 95 bankruptcy and 21 special federal courts
  • published opinions, including state supreme and appellate courts — 384 courts, including 53 state supreme courts53 state supreme, 62 state appellate, 6 state trial and 28 state special courts, plus the federal courts above

County and municipal courts are not searched, and neither is anything outside the United States. A count of nought means we found nothing where we looked, not that nothing exists.

6
agencies observed
6
with dated history
2026
earliest sighting
7
incidents on the record
1
with legal action

Incidents on the record naming Clearview AI

Public reports of harm that name Clearview AI, written from the article each cites. A report is an account of what happened, not a finding of fault.

Relationship map

Everything this page holds on Clearview AI, connected. Each point opens the record, the court docket or the source behind it.

Platform (1)Vendor (1)Products (1)Incidents (7)Customers (1)

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What we hold, by kind

Incidents7

Bias allegations, by product—

None found yet.

Allegations from incidents and court cases. An allegation is not a finding.

False positives and false negatives—

None found yet.

Reports describing a wrong flag or rejection (false positive) or a missed one (false negative), picked out by their wording; not yet classified by a person.

Regulatory actions—

None found yet in the regulators we search (FTC, CFPB, EEOC, NHTSA) or its filings.

Settlements—

None found yet in its filings or the cases we hold.

Audits—

No published audit found yet.

Bias audits the vendor says were done, and audit-based certifications.

Academic studies—

Not collected yet: studies of this platform are a source we are adding.

Verified deployments

6 agencies we can evidence on Clearview AI, from addresses they run on its domain and from Clearview AI’s own customer stories. Which ones, and since when, is a Professional feature.

ProfessionalEvery company we can evidence on this platform, how we know, and since when.

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