Incident 388: Facial Recognition Pilot in Bahia Reportedly Targeted Black and Poor People
Description: Facial recognition deployed in a pilot project by the local government of Bahia despite having minimal hit rate reportedly targeted Black and poor people disproportionately.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Huawei developed an AI system deployed by the government in Bahia and Bahia's Secretary of Public Security, which harmed Black people in Brazil and Black people in Bahia.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
388
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2018-12-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
theintercept.com · 2021
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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.
