Incident 166: Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women
Description: A social networking platform, Giggle, allegedly collected, shared to third-parties, and used sensitive information and biometric data to verify whether a person is a woman via facial recognition, which critics claimed to be discriminatory against women of color and harmful towards trans women.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Kairos developed an AI system deployed by Giggle, which harmed trans women and women of color.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
166
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-02-07
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A new social app called Giggle is pitching itself as a girls-only networking platform. To sign up, users have to take a selfie. And while that might not sound too invasive, the app then uses “bio-metric gender verification software” to dete…
An app marketed towards "females" has faced a barrage of online criticism for excluding transgender women with its use of artificial intelligence.
Giggle, which first launched in early 2020, according to The Verge, uses facial recognition t…
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