BiasMedium
Facial Recognition Pilot in Bahia Reportedly Targeted Black and Poor People
- Occurred
- Dec 1, 2018
- Published
- Sep 20, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facial recognition deployed in a pilot project by the local government of Bahia despite having minimal hit rate reportedly targeted Black and poor people disproportionately.
Developers
- Huawei
Deployers
- the government in Bahia
- Bahia's Secretary of Public Security
Harmed parties
- Black people in Brazil
- Black people in Bahia
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Facial recognition system disproportionately targeted Black and poor people, indicating discriminatory impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8