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Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data
- Occurred
- Apr 11, 2018
- Published
- Jan 30, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.
Developers
- Microsoft
Deployers
- Salta city government
- Government of Argentina
Harmed parties
- Salta teenage girls
- Salta girls of minority groups
- Women and girls
- Girls
- Adolescent girls
- Women
- Privacy
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Predictive algorithm used sensitive demographic data for discriminatory purposes, causing significant privacy and civil rights concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8