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Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women
- Occurred
- Feb 7, 2020
- Published
- Jan 23, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A social networking platform, Giggle, allegedly collected, shared to third-parties, and used sensitive information and biometric data to verify whether a person is a woman via facial recognition, which critics claimed to be discriminatory against women of color and harmful towards trans women.
Developers
- Kairos
Deployers
- Giggle
Harmed parties
- Women of color
- Trans women
- Women and girls
- Women
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI system allegedly discriminates against transgender women and women of color via facial recognition.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8