Threat actor
Clearview AI
Last fetched
Clearview AI is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Using a growing database of over 30 billion images scraped from social media and other online platforms, Clearview AI provides law enforcement and private entities with the ability to identify individuals through facial recognition software. This technology was also used by U.S federal agencies, including ICE and the FBI, to surveil immigrants, activists, and protesters, often targeting leftist groups and individuals critical of political figures. According to 404 Media, Clearview reportedly attempted to purchase Social Security numbers and mugshots from all 50 states in the U.S to expand its database. In 2025, ICE awarded the disputed facial recognition firm its largest government contract yet amid its ongoing crackdown targeting immigrants.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Clearview AI in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Clearview AI today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Clearview AI has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/03/1046676/police-surveillance-minnesota-george-floyd/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/controversial-clearview-ai-raises-8-million
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011
- https://abc7news.com/clearview-ai-california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-consumer-watchdog/14231840/
- https://edri.org/our-work/we-need-to-talk-about-clearview-ai/
- https://time.com/6988684/clearview-ai-latin-america/
- https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/clearview-ai-probed-over-facial-recognition-sales-to-foreign-governments/
- https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news/facial-recognition-technology-is-being-weaponised-needs-guardrails-kashmir-hill/90113/1
- https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368930/clearview-ai-ice-contract-privacy-immigration
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/08/ice-to-pay-10-million-for-clearview-facial-recognition-to-investigate-agent-assaults/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/17/ice-surveillance-immigrants-antifa/
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Related pages
Pivot from Clearview AI into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Run yourself →Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.