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sex workers

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Incident 1836 Report
Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers

2017-07-01

Airbnb allegedly considered publicly available data on users to gauge their trustworthiness via algorithmic assessment of personality and behavioral traits, resulting in unexplained bans and discriminatory bans against sex workers.

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Incident 4081 Report
Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

2017-04-15

Facebook's "People You May Know" feature reportedly outed sex workers by recommending clients to their personal accounts or family members to their business accounts with no option to opt out.

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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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Airbnb

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 183
    6 Reports

    Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers

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Trooly

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 183
    6 Reports

    Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers

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Airbnb users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 183
    6 Reports

    Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers

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Facebook

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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sex workers using Facebook

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Facebook People You May Know

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Social recommendation systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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