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Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women
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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Reported occurrence date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2020-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
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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