Jun 1, 2016Confirmed
Facial Recognition Smart Phone App 'Blue Wolf' Reportedly Monitored Palestinians in the West Bank
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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A surveillance program involving facial recognition and algorithmic recommendations, Blue Wolf, was reportedly deployed by the Israeli military to monitor Palestinians in the West Bank.
What this means for youFacial recognition apps can be used to track and identify people without their knowledge, which raises privacy and civil-rights concerns for anyone photographed or living under such surveillance. Governments should be asked to disclose and limit where these tools are used.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/368
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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