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GMX

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 831 Report
AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

2020-10-22

AlgorithmWatch tested spam filtering algorithms across Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste. Their findings reportedly showed that Microsoft Outlook’s spam filter flagged emails based on specific keywords that led to racial and content-based biases blocking legitimate communications. Emails mentioning Nigeria or containing certain financial and sexual health terms were found to be disproportionately marked as spam.

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Yahoo

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Outlook

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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LaPoste

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Gmail

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Microsoft

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Google

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Yahoo! Mail users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Microsoft Outlook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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LaPoste users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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GMX users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Gmail Users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Yahoo! Mail's spam filter

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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SpamAssassin

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Microsoft Outlook's spam filter

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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LaPoste Mail's spam filter

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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GMX Mail's spam filter

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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Gmail's spam filter

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 83
    1 Report

    AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection

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