FDIC · FDIC-71 · record R1089
Background Check Tool for Fraud Investigations
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Division of Risk Management Supervision
Overview
- Development stage
- DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2025-01 (month precision)Source: 01/2025
- Withheld from public reporting
- NoSource: a) No
Mission
- Topic area
- Information Technology
- Operational functions
- Fraud, waste and improper payments Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
CLEAR is used to assist with fraud investigations. It searches and retrieves publicly available data on individuals and businesses.
Expected benefits
Rapidly obtaining information on individuals and businesses from publicly available data sources.
System outputs
Background information on individuals and ownership information on businesses.
Technology
- AI classification
- Other
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- No
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor
- Vendor (as reported)
- CLEAR
- Vendors (standardized)
- CLEAR
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- Yes
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- No
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Unknown
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported