Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a 2019 bid to buy 690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos, including Social Security numbers, from Investigative Consultant, Inc., according to documents obtained by 404 Media. The deal collapsed; an arbiter sided with Clearview in 2024 and ordered ICI to return the money, which it has not paid.
PhotoRunning, one of the sector's main race-photography firms, illegally subjected the faces of more than 300,000 runners and spectators, including thousands of minors, to facial recognition at 48 events over twelve months, according to Le Monde. The system let participants submit a photo of their face to retrieve every event picture they appeared in.
A senior executive at a Japanese manufacturing company got three calls in November 2024 from an AI-generated fake of the CEO's voice demanding a same-day transfer for an "urgent M&A deal", in an incident disclosed by Proofpoint's Japan branch. The caller ID matched the CEO's mobile; the suspicious executive reached the real CEO, and lawyers took over the case.
Amazon's self-driving unit Zoox agreed to recall 258 vehicles after a NHTSA probe opened in May over unexpected braking linked to two rear-end collisions that injured motorcyclists. Zoox said its software could brake unnecessarily hard near bicyclists at crosswalks or when motorcyclists or bicyclists approached rapidly from behind, and that software updates have addressed the issue.
