Description: A class action lawsuit was filed against several facial recognition technology companies for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The defendants are accused of offering a facial recognition search engine called Pimeyes, which collects images from databases across the internet and scans them into their database seemingly without consent. This action is claimed to invade the privacy of millions of Americans. The lawsuit argues that Pimeyes lacks publicly available policies regarding data storage and deletion, in contravention of BIPA's requirements for informed written consent before collecting biometric data.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Transaction Cloud , Public Mirror , PimEyes , Lukasz Kowalczyk , Giorgi Gobronidze , Face Recognition Solutions , EMEA Robotics , Denis Tatina , Carribex and Does 1-25 developed an AI system deployed by Transaction Cloud , Public Mirror , PimEyes , Lukasz Kowalczyk , Giorgi Gobronidze , Face Recognition Solutions , EMEA Robotics , Does-125 , Denis Tatina and Carribex, which harmed Nicholas Clayton , Misty McGraw , Manuel Clayton , Illinois residents , Amy Newton and Amanda Curry.
Incident Stats
Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- Privacy & Security
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
AI
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Intentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
EDWARDSVILLE - A class action lawsuit alleges a facial recognition search engine that searches the internet for peoples' photos invades their privacy in violation of Illinois law.
Plaintiffs Amy Newton, Amanda Curry, Manuel Clayton, Misty M…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
