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Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

AI Incident Database · article · Jan 29, 2020 · UTC

Facebook's initial version of the its Tag Suggestions feature where users were offered suggestions about the identity of people's faces in photos allegedly stored biometric data without consent, violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2015-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

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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