Facial Recognition App Blue Wolf Monitored Palestinians: A Case Study on AI Incident Governance

June 1, 2016

The controversial surveillance program, Blue Wolf, deployed by the Israeli military in the West Bank, employed facial recognition and algorithmic recommendation to monitor Palestinians. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US: Learn more about how you can contribute to promoting trustworthy AI and AI governance.
Alleged deployer
the-israel-military
Alleged developer
anyvision
Alleged harmed parties
palestinians-residing-in-the-west-bank

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/368

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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