AI incident
Clearview AI unlawful biometric scraping
Clearview AI · 2022
Organisation
Clearview AI
Year
2022
Failure mode
Unlawful processing
Severity
critical
Domain
Biometric ID / categorisation
Source
CNIL/ICO/Garante, 2021–22
What happened
Mass facial-image scraping drew multiple GDPR fines and bans across the EU and UK.
What would have prevented it
Lawful basis + DPIA + biometric-use restrictions
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.