SurveillanceHigh
Facial Recognition Program in São Paulo Metro Stations Suspended for Illegal and Disproportionate Violation of Citizens' Right to Privacy
- Occurred
- Apr 12, 2018
- Published
- Mar 25, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A facial recognition program rolled out by São Paulo Metro Stations was suspended following a court ruling in response to a lawsuit by civil society organizations, who cited fear of it being integrated with other electronic surveillance entities without consent, and lack of transparency about the biometric data collection process of metro users.
Developers
- SecurOS
Deployers
- Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
Harmed parties
- São Paulo Metro users
- São Paulo citizens
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
- General public
- General public of Brazil
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition program suspended due to privacy violations and lack of consent in biometric data collection.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8