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Robbers Accessed Drugged Gay Men's Bank Accounts Using Their Phones' Facial Recognition

AI Incident Database · article · Jun 1, 2022 · UTC

Gay men in New York City were drugged by robbers who accessed their phones using facial recognition while they were unconscious to transfer funds out of their bank accounts.

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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

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

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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