Black people
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Incident 1623 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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Rite Aid Facial Recognition Disproportionately Misidentified Minority Shoppers as Shoplifters
2023-12-20
Rite Aid used facial recognition technology from October 2012 to July 2020, allegedly leading to disproportionate misidentifications of women, Black, Latino, and Asian shoppers as "likely" shoplifters. The FTC settlement prohibits Rite Aid from using this technology in stores for five years.
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Chicago Police's Strategic Subject List Reportedly Biased Along Racial Lines
2012-08-01
The Chicago Police Department reportedly used person-based predictive policing models, including the Strategic Subject List and Crime and Victimization Risk Model, to assign violence-risk scores to hundreds of thousands of residents. Official and media reports alleged that the program gave police a mathematically fragile basis for treating heavily policed residents as future victims or suspects, with Black Chicago residents especially exposed to the consequences of that scoring.
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Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match
2022-11-25
Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit.
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Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas
- Incident 3324 Reports
Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles
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Clearview AI
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- Incident 4406 Reports
Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match
- Incident 5583 Reports
Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest