Reporting Lag
For each incident, the lag is the number of days between the incident date and the publication date of the earliest report in the database. Some incidents are reported the same day; others surface years later through investigations, lawsuits or research.
1785 incidents, median lag 2 days, 68% reported within 30 days
Time to first report
Lag by incident date
Hover a point for the incident and click it to pin the report below. Red points were published before the incident date.
Longest gaps between incident and first report
- 99: Major Universities Are Reportedly Using Race as a 'High Impact Predictor' of Student Success (2012-01-01 → 2021-03-02, 9.2 years)
- 257: Police Reportedly Deployed ShotSpotter Sensors Disproportionately in Neighborhoods of Color (2012-05-04 → 2021-05-03, 9.0 years)
- 527: Tech Companies Reportedly Influenced Gig Workers' Behaviors Using Algorithms to Vary Pay for Same Amount of Work (2014-05-08 → 2023-01-19, 8.7 years)
- 162: ETS Used Allegedly Flawed Voice Recognition Evidence to Accuse and Assess Scale of Cheating, Causing Thousands to be Deported from the UK (2014-01-01 → 2022-02-09, 8.1 years)
- 1630: Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Allegedly Used Cendyn's Rainmaker AI to Coordinate and Inflate Room Rates (2018-06-28 → 2026-07-29, 8.1 years)
- 135: UT Austin's GRADE Algorithm Reportedly Reduced Review of Lower-Scored PhD Applicants Amid Bias Concerns (2012-12-01 → 2020-12-08, 8.0 years)
- 894: RealPage's YieldStar Allegedly Facilitated Rent Price Coordination Among Canadian Landlords (2017-01-01 → 2024-09-04, 7.7 years)
- 387: Oracle's Algorithmic Data Processing System Alleged as Unlawful and Violating Privacy Rights (2014-12-22 → 2022-08-22, 7.7 years)
- 1428: UK High Court Found Sky Betting & Gaming Unlawfully Used Automated Profiling and Targeted Marketing to Exploit a Recovering Problem Gambler (2017-07-28 → 2025-01-28, 7.5 years)
- 254: Google's Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users' Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA (2015-05-01 → 2022-06-06, 7.1 years)
- 392: Facebook's AI-Supported Moderation Failed to Classify Terrorist Content in East African Languages (2015-06-01 → 2022-06-14, 7.0 years)
- 260: US DHS’s Opaque Vetting Software Allegedly Relied on Poor-Quality Data and Discriminated against Immigrants (2014-08-26 → 2021-08-25, 7.0 years)
- 476: YouTube Recommendations Allegedly Promoted Radicalizing Material Contributing to Terrorist Acts (2015-11-13 → 2022-10-03, 6.9 years)
- 1617: Motive AI Dashcams Allegedly Collected Truckers' Biometric Data and Built License-Plate Location Records Without Consent (2020-01-01 → 2026-07-28, 6.6 years)
- 478: Tesla FSD Reportedly Increased Crash Risk, Prompting Recall (2016-09-09 → 2023-02-16, 6.4 years)