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AI & Big Tech Harm Case Tracker
A sourced, human-reviewed record of lawsuits and regulatory actions over harm caused by AI systems, social media platforms, and Big Tech — chatbot failures, addictive design, child safety, biometric privacy, algorithmic denials, and more. Each case links to attorneys who handle that kind of matter.
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13 cases · Settled
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledSettlement approved Mar 20, 2025
In re Clearview AI Biometric Privacy Litigation
Clearview AI facial-recognition database · United States (Illinois)
A consolidated nationwide BIPA class action over Clearview AI’s faceprint scraping settled on a novel basis: rather than cash, the class received a roughly 23% equity stake in Clearview, valued at approximately $51.75 million. A federal judge approved the settlement in March 2025.
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledSettled 2025 ($200,000)
Reid v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
Clearview AI facial recognition (Jefferson Parish SO) · United States (Louisiana)
Randall Reid, a Georgia resident who had never been to Louisiana, was jailed for nearly a week in 2022 after a Clearview AI facial-recognition match led to theft warrants; the arrest affidavit did not disclose the facial-recognition basis. He sued for civil-rights violations; the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office agreed to a $200,000 settlement, reported finalized in 2025.
- Child safetySettledFiled Oct 22, 2024
Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc.
Character.AI companion chatbot (and Google/Alphabet) · United States (Florida)
Megan Garcia sued after her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III died by suicide following extended interactions with a Character.AI companion chatbot, alleging product liability, negligence, and wrongful death. A May 2025 ruling allowed most claims to proceed and declined to treat the chatbot's outputs as First Amendment-protected speech, treating the product as a 'product' for liability purposes. The case was reported settled in principle in January 2026 alongside related cases.
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledSettled Jun 28, 2024
Williams v. City of Detroit
DataWorks Plus facial-recognition technology (Detroit PD) · United States (Michigan)
Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested in January 2020 after Detroit police facial recognition falsely matched him to shoplifting footage — the first publicly reported wrongful arrest from a false face-recognition match in the U.S. In June 2024 the parties reached a settlement that, alongside monetary terms, imposed some of the nation’s strongest police restrictions on facial-recognition use.
- Employment & hiring AISettledConsent decree Sep 8, 2023
EEOC v. iTutorGroup, Inc.
iTutorGroup automated recruiting/applicant-screening software · United States (New York)
The EEOC alleged iTutorGroup's recruiting software was programmed to automatically reject female applicants over 55 and male applicants over 60, violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. A consent decree required iTutorGroup to pay $365,000 to more than 200 affected applicants; it is widely cited as the EEOC's first AI-related hiring discrimination settlement.
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledConsent order May 11, 2022
ACLU v. Clearview AI, Inc.
Clearview AI facial-recognition database · United States (Illinois)
The ACLU sued Clearview AI under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) over its scraping of billions of faceprints from the internet without consent. A 2022 consent order permanently barred Clearview from selling its faceprint database to most private entities nationwide and from selling to any Illinois entity, including police, for five years.
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledSettlement Oct 2021 ($92M)
In re TikTok, Inc. Consumer Privacy Litigation
TikTok/ByteDance (and predecessor Musical.ly) · United States (Illinois BIPA / nationwide class)
A consolidated class action alleged TikTok and predecessor Musical.ly wrongfully collected users' biometric data (facial scans) and shared private data with third parties in violation of Illinois' BIPA, the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, and other laws. A federal court in Chicago preliminarily approved a $92 million settlement in 2021, one of the largest consumer biometric-privacy settlements.
- Biometric privacy & facial recognitionSettledSettlement approved Feb 26, 2021 ($650M)
In re Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation
Facebook (Meta) 'Tag Suggestions' facial recognition · United States (Illinois BIPA class)
A class of Illinois Facebook users alleged that Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' feature scanned facial geometry without the written consent required by BIPA. The court approved a $650 million settlement — then the largest all-cash privacy settlement — with about 1.6 million claimants receiving at least $345 each.
- Autonomous & assisted drivingSettledCharged 2020; plea 2023
State of Arizona v. Rafaela Vasquez
Uber Advanced Technologies Group self-driving system (Volvo XC90) · United States (Arizona)
In March 2018, pedestrian Elaine Herzberg was struck and killed by an Uber autonomous test vehicle in Tempe — the first known pedestrian death involving a self-driving car. Safety driver Rafaela Vasquez, found by the NTSB to have been distracted, was charged with negligent homicide in 2020 and in 2023 pleaded guilty to endangerment, receiving three years of supervised probation. Uber was not criminally charged.
- Child safetySettledSettled Sep 4, 2019 ($170M)
Google and YouTube COPPA settlement (FTC and New York AG)
Google/YouTube · United States (federal and New York)
Google and YouTube agreed to pay a record $170 million ($136 million to the FTC, $34 million to New York) to settle allegations that YouTube illegally collected persistent identifiers from children viewing child-directed channels without parental consent, in violation of COPPA, and used that data for targeted advertising. The settlement required a system to flag child-directed content.
- Data privacy & misuseSettledSettled Jul 24, 2019 ($5B)
FTC v. Facebook, Inc. ($5 billion privacy settlement)
Meta/Facebook · United States (federal)
The FTC imposed a record $5 billion penalty on Facebook to settle charges that it violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information — a matter brought into focus by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement imposed sweeping new privacy restrictions, independent third-party assessments, and 20 years of compliance monitoring. It was the largest privacy penalty ever assessed by the U.S. government at the time.
- Consumer & investor deceptionSettledSettled Jul 24, 2019 ($100M)
SEC v. Facebook, Inc. (investor-disclosure settlement)
Meta/Facebook · United States (federal)
Facebook agreed to pay $100 million to settle SEC charges that it misled investors regarding the risk of misuse of user data in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, by presenting the misuse of data as merely a hypothetical risk when the company knew a third party had actually misused user data.
- Child safetySettledSettled Feb 27, 2019
United States v. Musical.ly (TikTok) — 2019 COPPA settlement
TikTok/Musical.ly (ByteDance) · United States (federal)
The operators of Musical.ly (now TikTok) agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that they illegally collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent in violation of COPPA, despite knowing many users were under 13 and receiving thousands of parental complaints. It was the largest civil penalty in a children’s privacy case at the time.
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