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Skating Rink’s Facial Recognition Cameras Misidentified Black Teenager as Banned Troublemaker
- Occurred
- Jul 10, 2021
- Published
- Jul 22, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Black teenager living in Livonia, Michigan was incorrectly stopped from entering a roller skating rink after its facial-recognition cameras misidentified her as another person who had been previously banned for starting a skirmish with other skaters.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Riverside Arena Skating Rink
Harmed parties
- Lamya Robinson
- Black Livonia residents
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Facial recognition misidentification led to discriminatory denial of entry based on race.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8