Incident 431: Robbers Accessed Drugged Gay Men's Bank Accounts Using Their Phones' Facial Recognition
Description: Gay men in New York City were drugged by robbers who accessed their phones using facial recognition while they were unconscious to transfer funds out of their bank accounts.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Apple developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed gay men in New York City and Julio Ramirez.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
431
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-04-20
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A 25-year-old social worker and mental health counselor was found unresponsive in the backseat of a New York City taxi following a night out in the city’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.
The victim was later identified as 25-year-old Julio Ram…
Julio Ramirez died in the back seat of a taxi in April after he left a popular gay bar in Manhattan with a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body in the car with a distressed cabdriver.
One month la…
A scare is spreading through the gay community in New York City as more attacks are being discovered. NYC is one of the most LGBTQ+-friendly cities in the world, so this is particularly alarming. Please stay safe and take extra precautions.…
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.