Incident 431: Robbers Accessed Drugged Gay Men's Bank Accounts Using Their Phones' Facial Recognition

Description: Gay men in New York City were drugged by robbers who accessed their phones using facial recognition while they were unconscious to transfer funds out of their bank accounts.

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Alleged: Apple developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed gay men in New York City and Julio Ramirez.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
431
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-04-20
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

Risk Domain

  1. Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

Human

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Intentional

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Variants

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