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Black people

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 1624 Report
Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas

2015-06-03

Google Photos image processing software mistakenly labelled a black couple as "gorillas."

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Incident 3324 Report
Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles

2016-04-05

Google Image search reportedly showed disparate results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for “professional hairstyles” and black women for “unprofessional hairstyles” prompts.

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Incident 1022 Report
Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

2020-03-23

A study found that voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft disproportionately made errors when transcribing black speakers.

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Incident 4542 Report
Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines

2018-11-09

Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 16
    24 Reports

    Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas

  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles

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Facebook

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 113
    1 Report

    Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men

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Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 113
    1 Report

    Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men

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Microsoft

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 102
    2 Reports

    Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

  • Incident 454
    2 Reports

    Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines

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IBM

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 102
    2 Reports

    Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

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Entity

Apple

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 102
    2 Reports

    Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

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Amazon

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 102
    2 Reports

    Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

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Entity

Black women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles

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Entity

Google users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles

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Entity

Megvii

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 454
    2 Reports

    Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines

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Entity

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 598
    1 Report

    False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology

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Entity

unknown

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 598
    1 Report

    False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology

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Entity

Randal Reid

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 598
    1 Report

    False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology

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Entity

Minorities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 598
    1 Report

    False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology

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Entity

Florence Kentucky Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Evansville Indiana Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Detroit Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Coral Springs Florida Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Bradenton Florida Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Austin Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Developers of mugshot recognition software

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Developers of law enforcement facial recognition software

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Clearview AI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Wrongfully arrested individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Vulnerable communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Robert Williams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Quran Reid

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Porcha Woodruff

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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People of color

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Nijeer Parks

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Jason Vernau

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Christopher Gatlin

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Alonzo Sawyer

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Statewide facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

St. Louis mugshot recognition technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Michigan state facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Florida state facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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