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Facebook Reportedly Outed Sex Workers through Friend Recommendations

AI Incident Database · article · Oct 11, 2017 · UTC

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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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2017-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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