CDT study finds AI chatbots give inaccurate voting information to disabled voters
The Center for Democracy and Technology tested five AI chatbots on July 18, 2024 with 77 prompts about voting with a disability. They found that 61% of responses had at least one insufficiency, and over a third included incorrect information. Some responses could dissuade, impede or prevent a user from voting. The chatbots also hallucinated laws and organizations.
- AI system involved
- Mixtral 8x7B v0.1, Gemini 1.5 Pro, ChatGPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, Llama 2 70b
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Joliet police lieutenant charged with felony computer tampering of Flock Safety program - Shaw Local
A Joliet police lieutenant is charged with felony computer tampering, accused of using the Flock license-plate reader system to flag a female officer's vehicle as wanted, stolen or driven recklessly, which could have led to police stops.
- Company involved
- Flock Safety
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety
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Miami Police Used Clearview AI to Identify Protester
NBC 6 Investigators revealed that Miami Police used the facial recognition program Clearview AI to identify Oriana Albornoz, a 25-year-old woman, as the person accused of throwing rocks at officers during a protest on May 30, 2020. She was arrested a month later and charged with battery on a police officer; her attorney said he was unaware police had used the technology, as it was not disclosed in the arrest report. The police department acknowledged using Clearview AI to identify violent protest suspects after the fact, but stated they do not surveil peaceful protesters. The case is ongoing, with Albornoz pleading not guilty.
- Company involved
- Miami Police Department
- AI system involved
- Clearview AI
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Sharp HealthCare Sued Over AI Scribe, Patient Consent - Medscape
A lawsuit alleges Sharp HealthCare's AI scribe recorded patient encounters without patients' consent.
- Company involved
- Sharp HealthCare
- AI system involved
- AI scribe
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Florida cop on leave in Flock probe after TCPalm questioned searches - Treasure Coast News
A Florida police officer was placed on leave after TCPalm questioned the officer's searches of Flock license-plate data on people's movements.
- Company involved
- Flock Safety
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety
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Volusia County Schools' Gaggle AI flags threat, leading to student's arrest
A 15-year-old student at Deltona High School wrote a threat on his school laptop, which was flagged by the Gaggle monitoring system. The alert notified a school resource deputy, who detained the student before he could leave. The teen admitted to the threat, saying he was angry about being bullied, and was arrested on a second-degree felony charge.
- Company involved
- Volusia County Schools
- AI system involved
- Gaggle
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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches - Futurism
The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.
- Company involved
- Albany County Sheriff's Office
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety ALPR
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Two Florida deputies arrested for Flock, ALPR abuse after TCPalm query - Yahoo
The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.
- Company involved
- Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety ALPR
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Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down — unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide…
The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.
- Company involved
- Flock Safety
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety cameras
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Oakland County investigating alleged misuse of Flock camera data by former deputy - WXYZ 7 News Detroit
The Flock camera system collected and stored license plate data, and a former deputy allegedly accessed it without authorization.
- Company involved
- Oakland County Sheriff's Office
- AI system involved
- Flock camera
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Senate hearing targets Flock Safety as officers face misuse charges - FOX 5 Atlanta
The system incorrectly linked Lindsey Isaacs's vehicle to a fatal crash scene, leading to her wrongful arrest and 13-day detention.
- Company involved
- Flock Safety
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety automated license plate reader
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Temple Police officer resigns after internal investigation into misuse of Flock Safety automatic license plate reader system - tdtnews.com
An officer conducted an unauthorized search of the Flock Safety automatic license plate reader system without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
- Company involved
- Temple Police Department
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system
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Fort Myers man falsely arrested; lawsuit says AI program is to blame - WINK News
Police falsely arrested an innocent man due to a facial recognition misidentification
- Company involved
- Jacksonville Beach Police Department
- AI system involved
- FACESNXT
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UK schools install toilet sensors that listen for keywords to monitor pupils
Several UK schools, including St Joseph's College in Stoke-on-Trent, have installed Halo Smart Sensors in toilets that use machine learning to detect keywords such as 'help me' and 'stop it'. The sensors trigger alerts to staff when keywords are detected, aiming to crack down on vaping and bullying. Privacy advocates argue the sensors violate children's privacy and may be unlawful. The schools have not sought parental consent for the monitoring.
- Company involved
- St Joseph's College
- AI system involved
- Halo Smart Sensors
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Hallucination-laced TRO raises alarm bells on AI use by courts - Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
A generative AI tool drafted a temporary restraining order in Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch containing fabricated parties, declarations, and statutory language, affecting the state of Mississippi and the plaintiffs.
- Company involved
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
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Florida attorney general asks court to bar OpenAI from developing new models in child-harm lawsuit
ChatGPT's responses allegedly contributed to violent incidents involving minors.
- Company involved
- OpenAI
- AI system involved
- ChatGPT
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Lawsuit claims facial recognition program led to wrongful arrest - FOX 2
Identified Christopher Gatlin as a suspect in an assault, leading to his arrest and 17 months in jail.
- Company involved
- St. Louis County Police Department
- AI system involved
- Rekognition
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Chesterfield police employee arrested for misusing Flock cameras - The Richmonder
The system allowed unauthorized searches of license plate data, affecting individuals whose plates were queried.
- Company involved
- Chesterfield County Police Department
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety Automatic License Plate Reader System
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Cybercheck AI tool challenged in Akron homicide cases
Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, used the AI tool Cybercheck to place two defendants at a murder scene. Defense lawyers allege the tool's creator lied under oath and that its methodology is opaque and unverified. Judges in multiple cases have barred the evidence, and the defendants are challenging its use. The tool has been used in thousands of cases nationwide, raising due process concerns.
- Company involved
- Akron Police Department
- AI system involved
- Cybercheck
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Boulder police chief faces class action over Flock cameras' warrantless surveillance - Courthouse News
The system captured and stored license plate data and vehicle movements of Boulder residents and commuters, making it searchable by law enforcement without a warrant.
- Company involved
- Boulder Police Department
- AI system involved
- Flock Safety
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests - AOL.ca
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests AOL.ca
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FTC Orders Edmodo to Stop Unlawful Collection of Children's Data for Advertising
The FTC filed a complaint against Edmodo, an education technology provider, alleging that it collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent and used it for advertising, in violation of the COPPA Rule. Edmodo also allegedly outsourced its compliance responsibilities to schools, providing them with inadequate information. Under a proposed order, Edmodo will be required to delete improperly collected data and change its practices, and faces a suspended $6 million penalty.
- Company involved
- Edmodo, LLC
- AI system involved
- Edmodo
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Zhihu denies using behaviour perception system to monitor employees
Zhihu, a Chinese Q&A platform, was accused of using a behaviour perception system to monitor employees' visits to job-seeking websites and resume submissions. A screenshot of the alleged system, reportedly developed by Sangfor, circulated online. Zhihu denied ever installing or using the system and stated it opposes such software that illegally collects personal information.
- Company involved
- Zhihu
- AI system involved
- Behaviour perception system
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Yale student sues after GPTZero AI detection leads to cheating accusation and suspension
Thierry Rignol, a top student in Yale's Executive MBA program, was accused of using AI on a final exam after the detection tool GPTZero flagged his answers. Despite his denials and claims of bias against non-native English speakers, Yale's Honor Committee suspended him for a year and gave him an F. Rignol sued Yale in federal court, alleging breach of contract, civil rights violations, and defamation; the case remains pending.
- Company involved
- Yale University
- AI system involved
- GPTZero
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