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Facebook's 'Tag Suggestions' Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

Occurred
Jun 14, 2015
Published
Jan 29, 2020
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Facebook's initial version of the its Tag Suggestions feature where users were offered suggestions about the identity of people's faces in photos allegedly stored biometric data without consent, violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Developers

  • Facebook

Deployers

  • Facebook

Harmed parties

  • Facebook users
  • Social media users
  • Privacy
  • Biometric data subjects

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Facebook stored biometric data without consent, violating Illinois law and triggering regulatory action.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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