Potential Privacy Breach: Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Violates Patients' Confidentiality
July 15, 2015
The 'People You May Know' (PYMK) feature on Facebook was reported to have inappropriately suggested patients of a psychiatrist as friends. This incident underscores the need for safe and secure AI, highlighting the importance of guardrails for AI and responsible AI governance. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- pseudonymized-psychiatrist's-patients, pseudonymized-psychiatrist, patients, healthcare-providers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/406
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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