Clearview AI, exposed by the New York Times in January 2020, scraped over 30 billion photos from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other platforms without consent to build the world's largest facial recognition database. Over 1,000 police departments and ICE used the tool to identify people from photos. Multiple countries fined Clearview a combined ~100 million euros. The ACLU sued, and in 2022 Clearview settled, agreeing not to sell the database to private companies in the US.