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Uber Allegedly Violated GDPR by Failing to Provide Sufficient Notice on Automated Profiling for Drivers Uber was alleged in a lawsuit to have provided incomplete notice about automated decision-making and profiling for drivers such as information about their driving behavior, and use of phone.
Canadian Police's Release of Suspect's AI-Generated Facial Photo Reportedly Reinforced Racial Profiling The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Canada released a facial image of a Black male suspect generated by an algorithm using DNA phenotyping, which was denounced by the local community as racial profiling.
Facial Recognition Pilot in Bahia Reportedly Targeted Black and Poor People Facial recognition deployed in a pilot project by the local government of Bahia despite having minimal hit rate reportedly targeted Black and poor people disproportionately.
Oracle's Algorithmic Data Processing System Alleged as Unlawful and Violating Privacy Rights Oracle's automated system involving algorithmic data processing was alleged in a lawsuit to have been unlawfully collecting personal data from millions of people and violating their privacy rights.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Cited Errors in Automated Systems as Cause for Blocking pro-Palestinian Content on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter wrongly blocked or restricted millions of pro-Palestinian posts and accounts related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, citing errors in their automated content moderation system.
Thai Wallet App's Facial Recognition Errors Created Registration Issues for Government Programs A Thai wallet app failed to recognize people’s faces, resulting in citizens and disproportionately elders unable to sign up for Thai government’s cash handout and co-pay programs or having to wait in long queues at local ATMs for authentication.
Cruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency A fire truck in San Francisco responding to a fire was blocked from passing a doubled-parked garbage truck by a self-driving Cruise car on the opposing lane which stayed put and did not reverse to clear the lane.
Facial Recognition Researchers Used YouTube Videos of Transgender People without Consent YouTube videos of transgender people used by researchers to study facial recognition during gender transitions were used and distributed without permission.
Schufa Credit Scoring in Germany Reported for Unreliable and Imbalanced Scores Creditworthiness Schufa scores in Germany reportedly privileged older and female consumers, and people who changed addresses less frequently, and were unreliable depending on scoring version.
Finland Police's Facial Recognition Trial to Identify Sexual Abuse Victims Deemed Illegal Finland's National Police Board was reprimanded for illegal processing of special categories of personal data in a facial recognition trial to identify potential victims of child sexual abuse.
Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quality curation process and harmed users looking for correct answers.
Uber Locked Indian Drivers out of Accounts Allegedly Due to Facial Recognition Fails Uber drivers in India reported being locked out of their accounts allegedly due to Real-Time ID Check's facial recognition failing to recognize appearance changes or faces in low lighting conditions.
Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
Lensa AI's Produced Unintended Sexually Explicit or Suggestive "Magic Avatars" for Women Lensa AI's "Magic Avatars" were reportedly generating sexually explicit and sexualized features disproportionately for women and Asian women despite not submitting any sexual content.
Cruise Taxis' Sudden Braking Allegedly Put People at Risk Cruise's autonomous taxis slowed suddenly, braked, and were hit from behind, allegedly becoming unexpected roadway obstacles and potentially putting passengers and other people at risk.
Unreliable ShotSpotter Audio Convicted Black Rochester Man of Shooting Police ShotSpotter's "unreliable" audio was used as scientific evidence to accuse and convict a Black man of attempting to shoot Rochester's city police, whose conviction was later reversed by a county judge.
Lawyers Denied Entry to Performance Venue by Facial Recognition Lawyers were barred from entry to Madison Square Garden after a facial recognition system matched them as employed by a law firm currently engaged in litigation with the venue.
Robbers Accessed Drugged Gay Men's Bank Accounts Using Their Phones' Facial Recognition 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.
Chicago Police's Strategic Subject List Reportedly Biased Along Racial Lines Chicago Police Department (CPD)'s Strategic Subject List as output of an algorithm purportedly to identify victims or perpetrators of violence was reportedly ineffective, easily abused, and biased against low-income communities of color.
Sudden Braking by Tesla Allegedly on Self-Driving Mode Caused Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel A Tesla driver alleged Full Self Driving (FSD) braking unexpectedly as the cause for an eight-car pileup in San Francisco which led to minor injuries of nine people.
Tesla Driver Put Car on Autopilot Before Falling Asleep in Germany A Tesla driver fell asleep on an Autobahn near Bamberg, Germany after activating his vehicle's Autopilot mode, which did not respond to attempts to pull it over by the police.
Chinese Province Developed System Tracking Journalists and International Students Henan's provincial government reportedly planned system involving facial recognition cameras connected to regional and national databases specifically to track foreign journalists and international students.
Detroit Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Due To Faulty Facial Recognition A Black man was wrongfully detained by the Detroit Police Department as a result of a false facial recognition (FRT) result.
Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit.
Korea Developed ID Screening System Using Airport Travelers' Data without Consent Korean government's development of immigration screening system involving real-time facial recognition used airport travelers' data which was supplied by the Ministry of Justice without consent.
ShotSpotter Failed to Alert Authorities of Mass Shooting in North Carolina ShotSpotter did not detect gunshots and alert Durham police of a drive-by shooting in Durham, North Carolina which left five people in hospital on New Year's Day.
CNET's Published AI-Written Articles Ran into Quality and Accuracy Issues AI-written articles published by CNET reportedly contained factual errors which bypassed human editorial review, prompting the company to issue corrections and updates.
Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Ethnic Violence in Ethiopia Facebook allegedly did not adequately remove hate speech, some of which was extremely violent and dehumanizing, on its platform including through automated means, contributing to the violence faced by ethnic communities in Ethiopia.
NYPD's Deployment of Facial Recognition Cameras Reportedly Reinforced Biased Policing New York Police Department’s use of facial recognition deployment of surveillance cameras were shown using crowdsourced volunteer data reinforcing discriminatory policing against minority communities.
Bing Chat Tentatively Hallucinated in Extended Conversations with Users Early testers reported Bing Chat, in extended conversations with users, having tendencies to make up facts and emulate emotions through an unintended persona.
Tesla FSD Reportedly Increased Crash Risk, Prompting Recall A component of Tesla Full Self Driving system was deemed by regulators to increase crash risk such as by exceeding speed limits or by traveling through intersections unlawfully or unpredictably, prompting recall for hundreds of thousands of vehicles.
Indian Police Allegedly Tortured and Killed Innocent Man Following Facial Misidentification A resident in Medak, India died allegedly due to custodial torture by the local police, who misidentified him as a suspect in a theft case using facial recognition.
US CBP App's Failure to Detect Black Faces Reportedly Blocked Asylum Applications CBP One's facial recognition feature was reportedly disproportionately failing to detect faces of Black asylum seekers from Haiti and African countries, effectively blocking their asylum applications.
Pennsylvania County's Family Screening Tool Allegedly Exhibited Discriminatory Effects Data analysis by the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) on Allegheny County's decision-support Family Screening Tool to predict child abuse or neglect risk found the tool resulting in higher screen-in rates for Black families and higher risk scores for households with disabled residents.
Bing AI Search Tool Reportedly Declared Threats against Users Users such as the person who revealed its built-in initial prompts reported Bing AI-powered search tool for making death threats or declaring them as threats, sometimes as an unintended persona.
Black Man Wrongfully Arrested by Louisiana Police Due to Face Mismatch A black man was wrongfully arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office due to facial recognition system developed by Clearview AI, although facial recognition use was not disclosed in the documents used to arrest him.
Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi A man was arrested for theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store under the guise of an eyewitness ID case, after the local police asked the store's security guard to confirm the facial recognition match produced using surveillance footage, despite him having an alibi at the time of the theft.
New York Detective Misused Woody Harrelson's Face to Perform Face Recognition Search When the facial recognition search for a CVS theft suspect's face returned no useful matches due to the surveillance footage being obscured and highly pixelated, a New York City police detective continued the face search using Woody Harrelson's face allegedly due to his resemblance to the suspect's face, eventually leading to the arrest of an unknown victim.
AI Voices Abused by Telegram User to Make Swat Calls as Paid Service Telegram channel Torswats offered paid service for and posted own recordings of false threats calls featuring AI-generated voices to direct armed law enforcement to raid locations of victims such as high schools, private residents, streamers.
Microsoft's TayBot Allegedly Posts Racist, Sexist, and Anti-Semitic Content to Twitter In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation In March 2016, [Microsoft](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/Microsoft) was preparing to release [its new chatbot, Tay](https://web.archive.org/web/20160414074049/https:/www.tay.ai/), on Twitter. Described as an experiment in "conversational understanding," Tay was designed to engage people in dialogue through tweets or direct messages
Uber Autonomous Cars Running Red Lights Uber Denounces Traffic Light Laws After Self-Driving Car Runs Red Light Uber Denounces Traffic Light Laws After Self-Driving Car Runs Red Light

Halting Problem Blocked Unblock Follow Following Dec 23, 2016

SOMA, SAN FRANCISCO — Uber isn’t exactly known for following the rules. The ride-sharing company recently launched its self-driving car service in San Francisco without the necessary permits with the DMV, unlike self-driving car manufacturers like Goog
Northpointe Risk Models How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm Across the nation, judges, probation and parole officers are increasingly using algorithms to assess a criminal defendant’s likelihood of becoming a recidivist – a term used to describe criminals who re-offend. There are dozens of these risk assessment algorithms in use. Many states have built their own assessments, and several academics have written tools. There are also two leading nationwide tools offered by commercial ve
High-Toxicity Assessed on Text Involving Women and Minority Groups AI displays bias and inflexibility in civility detection, study finds According to a 2019 Pew Center survey, the majority of respondents believe the tone and nature of political debate in the U.S. have become more negative and less respectful. This observation has motivated scientists to study the civility or lack thereof in political discourse, particularly on broadcast television. Given their ability to parse language at scale,
Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s. Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.

When Google released its stand-alone Photos app in May 2015, people were wowed by what it could do: analyze images to label the people, places and things in them, an astounding consumer
Gender Biases of Google Image Search Google’s algorithm shows prestigious job ads to men, but not to women. Here’s why that should worry you. Fresh off the revelation that Google image searches for “CEO” only turn up pictures of white men, there’s new evidence that algorithmic bias is, alas, at it again. In a paper published in April, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University claim Google displays far fewer ads for high-paying executive jobs…

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Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements Probing the Dark Side of Google’s Ad-Targeting System That Google and other companies track our movements around the Web to target us with ads is well known. How exactly that information gets used is not—but a research paper presented last week suggests that some of the algorithmic judgments that emerge from Google’s ad system could strike many people as unsavory.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the International Computer Science I
A Collection of Tesla Autopilot-Involved Crashes Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car—driver admits he was watching a movie Police in North Carolina have filed charges against a driver whose Tesla crashed into a police car early Wednesday morning, Raleigh's CBS 17 television reports. The driver admitted to officers that he had activated the Autopilot technology on his Model S and was watching a movie on his phone at the time of the crash.

"A Nash County deputy and a trooper with the Highway Patrol
Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires California Fires: How Is Waze Handling LA Wildfires? We Asked the App The ongoing wildfires in Southern California have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced 200,000 people to evacuate. And with so many fleeing for safety, people have suddenly had to confront a once hypothetical question: How well can navigation apps like Google Maps or Waze deal with unfolding natural disasters? We reached out to Waze to find out.

The issue was thrown into sharp relief
Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant Robot kills man at Volkswagen plant in Germany A 22-year-old contractor has been killed at a Volkswagen factor in Germany after a stationary robot he was helping to set up grabbed and crushed him to death against a metal plate.

VW spokesman Heiko Hillwig confirmed the man died on Monday at the plant in Baunatal, about 100 kilometres north of Frankfurt.

Robots put together a car at a Toyota factory in Australia. Credit:Paul Rovere

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Hackers Break Apple Face ID Hackers fool Apple's super secure Face ID and unlock iPhone X with a simple mask IT'S barely been available for ten days, but conniving hackers have already cracked the iPhone X's facial recognition security system.

Security experts based in Singapore used a 3D scanner to re-create the owners face at a cost of £115.

YouTube/Bkav 4 The researcher places the phone in front of the mask and it unlocks

They used 3D printing, makeup and 2D images plus some "special proce
Nuclear False Alarm A global nuclear weapons disaster averted by Stanislav Petrov in 1983 It was the moment Stanislav Petrov had been dreading since childhood, and preparing for much of his adult life.

After decades of Cold War tension, the early warning satellites had been triggered. The Americans had launched their nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.

As the duty officer in the Soviet Air Defence in the command centre bunker outside Moscow, it was Lt Col Petrov's job to call his superiors a
2010 Market Flash Crash UK speed trader arrested over role in 2010 'flash crash' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A high-frequency trader was arrested in London over his alleged role in the May 2010 “flash crash” that briefly wiped out nearly $1 trillion in market value, the first time authorities have blamed manipulation for the turbulence.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it had criminally charged Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, of London, with wire fraud, commodities fraud and manipulation.
Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices Woman In China Says Colleague’s Face Was Able To Unlock Her iPhone X A worker in the Chinese city of Nanjing claims a colleague has bested the facial recognition technology on her new iPhone X — twice.

The woman, identified only by her surname Yan, told the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. that her co-worker was able to get into both phones — her original as well as the new one Apple gave her as a replacement, reports the South China Morning Pos
Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program Fired by an algorithm, and no one can figure out why Fired by an algorithm, and no one can figure out why

Ibrahim Diallo was eight months into a three year contract with a big company when its systems abruptly decided that he was fired: first it told his recruiter that he'd been let go, then it stopped accepting his pass for the parking and the turnstyles, then his logins stopped working, and at each turn, his supervisor, and that person's b
Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game Frontier inadvertently drives Elite: Dangerous AI to create superweapons "We don’t think the AI became sentient in a Skynet-style uprising!"

- Frontier Developments' Zac Antonaci.

A recent upgrade of the artificial intelligences in Frontier Developments' multiplayer space sim Elite: Dangerous went a little too well, driving players to complain that the games' NPCs have become too powerful.

While it's not uncommon for players to complain about game updat
All Image Captions Produced are Violent MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit Photo: Matt Cardy (Getty Images)

We’ve all seen evil machines in The Terminator or The Matrix, but how does a machine become evil? Is it like Project Satan from Futurama, where scientists combined parts from various evil cars to create the ultimate evil car? Or are machines simply destined to eventually turn evil when their processing power or whatever becomes sufficiently
Defamation via AutoComplete Google ordered to change autocomplete function in Japan Google has been ordered to disable part of its autocomplete function in Japan after complaints it violates privacy.

An unidentified man took the search giant to court over concerns that typing in his name linked him with crimes he was not involved with.

Lawyer Hiroyuki Tomita said the effect on the man's reputation has meant he has found it hard to find work.

Google has so far not carried out the court's reque
Passport checker Detects Asian man's Eyes as Closed New Zealand passport robot tells applicant of Asian descent to open eyes A screenshot of New Zealand man Richard Lee's passport photo rejection notice, supplied to Reuters December 7, 2016. Richard Lee/Handout via REUTERS

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A New Zealand man of Asian descent had his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed.

Richard Lee’s attempt to renew his passport was bloc
AI Beauty Judge Did Not Like Dark Skin What Will Happen When Your Company’s Algorithms Go Wrong? An AI designed to do X will eventually fail to do X. Spam filters block important emails, GPS provides faulty directions, machine translations corrupt the meaning of phrases, autocorrect replaces a desired word with a wrong one, biometric systems misrecognize people, transcription software fails to capture what is being said; overall, it is harder to find examples of AIs that don’t fail. The failures
The DAO Hack The DAO, The Hack, The Soft Fork and The Hard Fork The Dao, the Hack, the Soft Fork and the Hard Fork Antonio Madeira 12 Mar 2019

What was the DAO incident?

In this guide we attempt to cover: how and why The DAO was created, how The DAO was exploited, how the soft fork failed miserably, and why everyone was relieved it did so, and how the hard fork led to a split community and the creation of Ethereum Classic.

Part 1: The DAO - Venture Fund Evolution

The Decentralized Autonomous
Tesla on AutoPilot Killed Driver in Crash in Florida while Watching Movie Joshua Brown, Who Died in Self-Driving Accident, Tested Limits of His Tesla CANTON, Ohio — Joshua Brown loved his all-electric Tesla Model S so much he nicknamed it Tessy.

And he celebrated the Autopilot feature that made it possible for him to cruise the highways, making YouTube videos of himself driving hands-free. In the first nine months he owned it, Mr. Brown put more than 45,000 miles on the car.

“I do drive it a L
Russian Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence The Yandex Chatbot: What You Need To Know Yesterday Yandex, the Russian technology giant, went ahead and released a chatbot: Alice! I’ve gotten in touch with the folks at Yandex, and fielded them my burning questions:

What’s unique about this chatbot? Everybody and their dog has a chatbot nowadays. Where is Alice adding value?

2. Why did you give it a female name? It’s the question that stumps many a chatbot developer, and has led to many an ethical
Gender Biases in Google Translate Female historians and male nurses do not exist, Google Translate tells its European users An experiment shows that Google Translate systematically changes the gender of translations when they do not fit with stereotypes. It is all because of English, Google says.



If you were to read a story about male and female historians translated by Google, you might be forgiven for overlooking the females in the group. The phrase “vier Historikerinnen und Historiker” (
FaceApp Racial Filters FaceApp apologises for 'racist' filter that lightens users' skintone The creator of an app which changes your selfies using artificial intelligence has apologised because its “hot” filter automatically lightened people’s skin.



FaceApp is touted as an app which uses “neural networks” to change facial characteristics, adding smiles or making users look older or younger. But users noticed one of the options, initially labelled as “hot” made people look whiter.





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Google Photo Merge Decapitates Subject Google Photos tried to fix this ski photo Google Photos’ intrepid Assistant just wants to help.

Part of the Android-maker’s photo app, it helps organize the thousands of photos stored on your phone. It can make little albums of places you went based on geolocation data, and through facial recognition can even organize albums about your friends, family and pets through. If you take a sequence of similarly composed photos, it can turn those into a little ani