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Social recommendation systems

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 4061 Report
Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

2015-07-15

Facebook's "People You May Know" (PYMK) feature was reported by a psychiatrist for recommending her patients as friends through recommendations, violating patients' privacy and confidentiality.

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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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Facebook

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 406
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    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

  • 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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pseudonymized psychiatrist's patients

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

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pseudonymized psychiatrist

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

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Patients

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

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healthcare providers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

  • Incident 408
    1 Report

    Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

  • 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 406
    1 Report

    Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

  • 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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sex workers

Incidents Harmed By
  • 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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