Faception 'facial personality profiling' pseudo-science marketing
Date: 2016
Affected: Public targeted by Faception customers
Attack vector: adversarial-input
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

Israeli startup Faception claimed it could detect terrorists, pedophiles and 'high-IQ' people from facial images, marketing the technology to governments. The pseudo-scientific claims drew comparisons to physiognomy and raised mass-surveillance and discrimination risks.


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