Clearview AI Face Recognition used by Finnish police

Clearview AI Face Recognition used by Finnish police
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Deployment Status	Stopped
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
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Country	Finland
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Clearview AI (Software), Clearview AI Face Recognition
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used
Deployment Type
runs search software
managed by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
used by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
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Information Certainty	0
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Information Certainty: Documented

Summary

In 2021, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) made itself known for using Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to recognize sexual abuse victims in the end of 2019 and start of 2020. 120 searches were made by four NBI officers during a free demo period. Neither NBI’s leadership nor the National Police Board were aware of this experiment – it came up over a year later when Buzzfeed News contacted the organization in March 2021. After that, the police reported the experiment and a possible data breach to the Data Protection Ombudsman who later gave a notice to NBI.

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Clearview AI (Software) Clearview AI Face Recognition
Institutions ⠉	Clearview AI Clearview AI
Datasets
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Stopped
Events
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
Used by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)

Location:

City	Unknown City 0001
Country ⠉	Finland

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In 2021, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) made itself known for using Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to recognize sexual abuse victims in the end of 2019 and start of 2020. 120 searches were made by four NBI officers during a free demo period. Neither NBI’s leadership nor the National Police Board were aware of this experiment – it came up over a year later when Buzzfeed News contacted the organization in March 2021. After that, the police reported the experiment and a possible data breach to the Data Protection Ombudsman who later gave a notice to NBI.