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Clearview AI

Controversial facial recognition company facing multiple privacy lawsuits and regulatory actions globally.

HQ🇺🇸 US
Est2017
Size51-200
EU AI ActLimited
clearview.ai
Score
15.0 / 100
Evidence
12 items
Confidence
high

Limited publicly verifiable safety practices identified.

Weaknesses:Governance Maturity, Technical Safety, Risk Assessment, Regulatory Readiness, External Engagement
Focus Areas
facial recognitionsurveillancelaw enforcementprivacy concerns

Strengths

  • High evidence coverage (12 items)

Risks

  • Risk score (8) - significant gap
  • Governance score (10) - significant gap
  • Regulatory score (10) - significant gap
  • Engagement score (17) - significant gap
  • Technical score (30) - significant gap
Table of Contents

Security Assessment

Security-relevant indicators for vendor evaluation

Security Posture
19
TS-01dim: 30
Red Teaming & Pre-deployment Testing
Adversarial testing before deployment
TS-05dim: 30
Robustness & Adversarial Resilience
Resistance to adversarial attacks
RA-01dim: 8
Sector-Specific Risk Assessment
Risk analysis for deployment context
RA-03dim: 8
Dual-Use & Misuse Risk
Dangerous capability awareness
RA-07dim: 8
Incident History & Track Record
Past incidents and response quality
EE-04dim: 17
Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Bug bounty or CVE reporting process
Incident History
Clearview AI incident records sourced from AIAAIC Repository and public reporting.
Integration: AIAAIC, OECD AI Incidents Monitor
Third-Party Audits
External audit reports, SOC 2 attestations, and ISO certifications verified where published.
Sources: Company filings, registry lookups
CVE & Disclosures
Known vulnerabilities and security advisories from NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, and vendor pages.
Sources: NVD, GHSA, vendor disclosure pages

Dimension Breakdown

GM
Governance Maturitypreliminary
Published policies, corporate structure, safety mandate, whistleblowing, executive commitment.
10
TS
Technical Safetypreliminary
Benchmarks, adversarial robustness, fine-tuning safety, watermarking, model cards, research output.
30
RA
Risk Assessmentpreliminary
Dangerous capability evaluations, thresholds, external testing, bug bounty, halt conditions.
8
RR
Regulatory Readinesspreliminary
ISO 42001, EU AI Act compliance, GPAI obligations, international commitments, incident reporting.
10
EE
External Engagementpreliminary
Survey participation, research support, transparency, behavior specs, open-source contributions.
17

Social Impact & Safety Profile

Limited

Clearview AI scraped billions of facial images from the internet to build a facial recognition database used by law enforcement. Fined by regulators in multiple countries (UK, France, Italy, Australia). Subject of major privacy lawsuits. Represents a cautionary case study in AI governance failure - powerful technology deployed without adequate consent, transparency, or regulatory compliance.

privacy violationssurveillanceregulatory enforcement

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Data Sources & Methodology

Scoring methodology v0.1 · 40 indicators · 6 frameworks

Last assessment: 2026-03-23 · Confidence: high · Evidence: 12 items

NIST AI RMF · EU AI Act · ISO 42001 · FLI AI Safety Index · MLCommons AILuminate · METR

How is this company scored? →Full methodologyView in Screener

Scores reflect publicly available information. A low score may indicate limited transparency rather than poor safety practices.