BiasMedium
AI-Assisted Body Scanners Reportedly Subjected Transgender Travelers to Invasive Body Searches
- Occurred
- Sep 15, 2017
- Published
- Aug 26, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)'s use of image-processing body scanners at airports led transgender and gender-nonconforming travelers to be subjected to allegedly discriminatory and invasive searches, such as being asked to remove undergarments in private rooms by officers not of their gender.
Developers
- L3Harris Technologies
Deployers
- Transportation Security Administration
Harmed parties
- transgender travelers
- gender-nonconforming travelers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI body scanners caused discriminatory treatment of transgender travelers, constituting a bias incident with limited but notable harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8