PrivacyMedium
Facial Recognition Researchers Allegedly Used YouTube Videos of Transgender People Without Consent
- Occurred
- Sep 13, 2013
- Published
- Sep 15, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
YouTube videos of transgender people used by researchers to study facial recognition during gender transitions were allegedly used and distributed without permission.
Developers
- University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Karl Ricanek
- Gayathri Mahalingam
Deployers
- University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Karl Ricanek
- Gayathri Mahalingam
Harmed parties
- YouTubers
- YouTube users
- Transgender YouTubers
- transgender people
- Social media users
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized use of personal videos for research violates consent and privacy norms.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8