PrivacyMedium
Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other
- Occurred
- Jul 15, 2015
- Published
- Aug 29, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook's "People You May Know" (PYMK) feature was reported by a psychiatrist for recommending her patients as friends through recommendations, violating patients' privacy and confidentiality.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- pseudonymized psychiatrist's patients
- pseudonymized psychiatrist
- Patients
- healthcare providers
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Facebook's PYMK feature recommended patients to each other, violating patient confidentiality and privacy.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8