Incident 184: Facial Recognition Program in São Paulo Metro Stations Suspended for Illegal and Disproportionate Violation of Citizens’ Right to Privacy

Description: A facial recognition program rolled out by São Paulo Metro Stations was suspended following a court ruling in response to a lawsuit by civil society organizations, who cited fear of it being integrated with other electronic surveillance entities without consent, and lack of transparency about the biometric data collection process of metro users.

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Alleged: SecurOS developed an AI system deployed by Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo, which harmed São Paulo Metro users and São Paulo citizens.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
184
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2018-04-12
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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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.