SurveillanceMedium
Student-Developed Facial Recognition App Raised Ethical Concerns
- Occurred
- Oct 21, 2021
- Published
- Nov 1, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
TheFaceTag app, a social networking app developed and deployed within-campus by a student at Harvard raised concerns surrounding its facial recognition, cybersecurity, privacy, and misuse. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
Developers
- Yuen Ler Chow
Deployers
- Yuen Ler Chow
Harmed parties
- TheFaceTag app users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Student app using facial recognition raised privacy and ethical concerns but was downgraded to issue status.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8