Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People's Safety and Privacy
Description
Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a model that determined, on a binary scale, whether someone was homosexual using only his facial image, which advocacy groups such as GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign denounced as flawed science and threatening to LGBTQ folks.
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Alleged Deployers
- yilun-wang
- michal-kosinski
Alleged Developers
- yilun-wang
- michal-kosinski
Harmed Parties
- non-american-lgbtq-people
- lgbtq-people-of-color
- lgbtq-people
- privacy
- biometric-data-subjects
Classification
Risk Domain
Privacy & SecurityRisk Subdomain
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
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