Incident #298·AI Safety & Failures
Student-Developed Facial Recognition App Raised Ethical Concerns
Explainability
Description
TheFaceTag app, a social networking app developed and deployed within-campus by a student at Harvard raised concerns surrounding its facial recognition, cybersecurity, privacy, and misuse. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- yuen-ler-chow
Alleged Developers
- yuen-ler-chow
Harmed Parties
- thefacetag-app-users
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
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Topics
Explainability
Source
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