{
  "record": {
    "id": "fe3f64a76d859c5f",
    "code": "PAI-FE3F64A7",
    "force": "Australian Federal Police",
    "country": "Australia",
    "country_code": "au",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation",
    "technology": "Clearview AI facial recognition (free trial)",
    "technology_slug": "clearview-ai",
    "vendor": "Clearview AI",
    "vendor_slug": "clearview-ai",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "discontinued",
    "stage": "withdrawn",
    "evidence": "regulator",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2019",
    "legal_basis": "Privacy Act 1988; Australian Government Agencies Privacy Code",
    "oversight": "Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), joint investigation with UK ICO",
    "notes": "This trial was run by the Australian Federal Police's Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), not the AFP generally. The AFP's own account, given in a Senate Estimates brief, states ACCCE personnel ran a limited pilot from November 2019 to January 2020, testing whether Clearview could match side-profile photographs of possible child exploitation victims against frontal reference images; temporary accounts were terminated in March 2020. The Australian Information Commissioner subsequently found the AFP had failed to comply with its privacy obligations, including a requirement to complete a privacy impact assessment before the trial.\n\nCorrection, October 2026. This record previously also named Queensland, Victoria and South Australia police. Email addresses from those forces appeared on a leaked Clearview client list in 2020, but none confirmed use: Queensland Police and Victoria Police declined to comment on operational methods and South Australia Police denied using it (Information Age, 3 March 2020). They are not recorded.",
    "source": "Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Commissioner-initiated investigation determination",
    "source_url": "https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-centre/clearview-ai-breached-australians-privacy",
    "last_checked": "2026-10-31",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/fe3f64a76d859c5f"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}