Description: Facebook’s initial version of the its Tag Suggestions feature where users were offered suggestions about the identity of people's faces in photos allegedly stored biometric data without consent, violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Facebook users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
122
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2015-06-14
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
122
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
122
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
Notes about the AI tangible harm level assessment
Although the entity that experienced the tangible harm in this case was Facebook and not the users, there still was tangible financial loss in this incident as mandated by the court.
CSETv1_Annotator-3 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
122
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
Notes about the AI tangible harm level assessment
Facebook paid a fine for implementing a facial recognition tool which stored users' biometric data without their consent.
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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theverge.com · 2020
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Facebook says it has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding its use of facial recognition technology. The news, reported first this evening by The New York Times, was part of a disclosure the company made as p…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
