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Women of color

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 3324 Report
Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

2016-04-05

Google Images reportedly showed disparate search results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for "professional hairstyles" and Black women for "unprofessional hairstyles" prompts.

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Incident 1662 Report
Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

2020-02-07

A social networking platform, Giggle, allegedly collected, shared to third-parties, and used sensitive information and biometric data to verify whether a person is a woman via facial recognition, which critics claimed to be discriminatory against women of color and harmful towards trans women.

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Giggle

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Kairos

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Trans women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Women and girls

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 166
    2 Reports

    Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

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Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Google users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Entity

Black women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Entity

Black people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Entity

Google Images users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Google Images

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 332
    4 Reports

    Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles

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Women

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Women and girls

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