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Black students

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 1581 Report
Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

2021-02-01

In February 2021, a Black college student, Amaya Ross, reportedly tried to take a remote biology lab quiz using proctoring software that could not detect her face. Ross said she spent 45 minutes changing lights, shades, position, and background before pointing an LED flashlight at her face so the app would work; the quiz itself was only 30 minutes.

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Incident 2141 Report
SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

2020-01-02

SN Technologies allegedly misled Lockport City Schools about the performance of its AEGIS face and weapons detection systems, downplaying error rates for Black faces and weapon misidentification.

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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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Unnamed Ohio college

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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Unknown remote proctoring software developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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University students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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Universities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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Educational communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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Black test-takers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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Amaya Ross

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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Remote exam proctoring systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

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Facial recognition technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 158
    1 Report

    Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz

  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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Lockport City School District

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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SN Technologies

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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AEGIS

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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Weapons detection system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 214
    1 Report

    SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance

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