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Student-Developed Facial Recognition App Highlights Need for AI Governance

October 21, 2021

TheFaceTag app, a social networking app developed by a student at Harvard, sparked discussions on facial recognition, cybersecurity, privacy, and responsible use. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape trustworthy AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
yuen-ler-chow
Alleged developer
yuen-ler-chow
Alleged harmed parties
thefacetag-app-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/298

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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