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The system could identify strangers via smart glasses and collected biometric data from users and non-users without consent.
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The AI platform screened job applicants, affecting their hiring prospects.
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A community member in Woods Cross, Utah, received an email with a video that used AI to clone the voice of Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown. The fake message claimed the recipient owed the federal government nearly $100,000 and that a wire transfer had been rejected. The police department warned the public about the scam and provided tips to avoid voice-cloning fraud. No financial loss was reported.
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Alibaba Cloud developed and tested a facial recognition algorithm that could identify a person's ethnicity or label them as Uyghur, according to research by IPVM. Alibaba expressed dismay, stating the trial technology was not deployed by any customer and that ethnic tags have been removed from its product. The incident raised concerns about potential ethnic profiling of Uyghur Muslims in China. The company said it does not permit its technology to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.
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AI facial recognition — Wrongful Arrest Leads to $10M Lawsuit The Korea Daily
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The AI hiring tool screened and rejected job applicants, including the plaintiff, based on race-related data points.
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A Tennessee grandmother was wrongly arrested based on AI facial recognition and spent six months in jail for bank robberies she did not commit. After her bank records proved she was in Tennessee during the crimes, the charges were dropped. She is suing the police for $10 million, alleging they relied on the faulty technology without proper investigation.
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A New Jersey man alleges he was wrongfully imprisoned for ten days after facial recognition software used by a police department mistakenly identified him as a suspect in a criminal investigation. The plaintiff, a Black man, claims the police relied solely on the technology to issue an arrest warrant despite his fingerprints and DNA not matching evidence from the crime scene and his provision of an alibi. He has filed a lawsuit against the police, prosecutor, and municipality for false arrest, false imprisonment, and civil rights violations. The case highlights concerns about racial bias in facial recognition technology.
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David Greene, a former NPR host, alleges that Google's NotebookLM tool replicated his voice without permission. He says he was 'completely freaked out' when a colleague asked if he had licensed his voice to the company. Greene is suing Google, claiming the product violated his rights by using an AI-generated voice that sounds like his own. The lawsuit is pending.
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ProPublica tested Sound Intelligence's aggression detection software, used in hundreds of U.S. schools and hospitals. The algorithm, which analyzes audio for signs of stress and anger, frequently misidentified innocent sounds like coughing as aggressive and failed to detect actual screams. At a New Jersey hospital, the system ignored an agitated man screaming and pounding a desk, escalating the situation. Sound Intelligence's CEO acknowledged the imperfections but defended the technology as an early warning system.
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In January 2023, AI-generated videos of fictitious Americans expressing support for Burkina Faso's military junta circulated on WhatsApp and social media. The videos were created using Synthesia's AI video generator. Synthesia banned the user responsible and condemned the misuse, highlighting challenges in content moderation for AI-generated media.
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The Chinese government, collaborating with AI company iFlytek, has been collecting voice pattern samples to build a national voice biometric database. Police use an Automatic Speaker Recognition system to automatically identify targeted voices in phone conversations and alert authorities. Human Rights Watch reports that the collection occurs with little transparency, and individuals may not know their voice patterns have been taken or be able to challenge the surveillance. iFlytek has not responded to Human Rights Watch's inquiries about the program.
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Suno AI generated music mimicking the identities of Jason Isbell and other artists without authorization.
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Ukraine's defence ministry has started using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology to identify Russian assailants and the dead, according to reports. Clearview provided free access to its system, which holds over 10 billion images including from Russian social media. Critics warn that the technology could misidentify people at checkpoints and in battle, potentially harming civilians. Clearview says it should not be used as the sole source of identification.
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Montenegrin police say AI is fuelling a rise in identity abuse by online fraudsters, using deepfake videos of public figures to promote bogus remedies and investment schemes. Surgeon and MP Vladimir Dobricanin found a manipulated video of himself apparently endorsing eyedrops and other products, while Bosnian fact-checkers reported similar misuse of statements to lure people into cryptocurrency scams. Victims reported 42 online scams in 2025 with financial losses of around 300,000 euros, but authorities say investigations are complex and often lengthy due to the use of servers abroad and encryption. Experts called for stronger technical capacities, international cooperation, and faster platform responses to tackle the problem.
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The ACLU of Massachusetts conducted a test using Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition technology, comparing headshots of 188 New England professional athletes to a database of 20,000 arrest photos. The software falsely matched 27 athletes, including Patriots safety Duron Harmon. The ACLU is calling for a moratorium on government use of face surveillance technology.
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US companies report a surge in fake job seekers using generative AI tools to fabricate identities, employment histories, and conduct deepfake video interviews for remote positions. Cybersecurity firms Pindrop and CAT Labs, along with BrightHire, describe incidents where scammers, including North Korean operatives, attempted to gain employment to install malware, demand ransoms, steal data, or collect salaries fraudulently. One candidate, 'Ivan X', was detected by Pindrop's video authentication tool after a recruiter noticed his facial expressions were out of sync with his words.
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Several models in London discovered that their likenesses had been used without their knowledge in AI-generated propaganda videos supporting the dictator of Burkina Faso. The videos were created using Synthesia's AI avatar platform, which the models had previously posed for. The models reported psychological distress and reputational harm, and Synthesia acknowledged the misuse and banned the accounts but the videos remain online.
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Momus Analytics, a legal technology company, uses machine learning to rank potential jurors for attorneys. Experts and researchers who reviewed the company's patent application say the algorithm relies on demographic characteristics such as race, which may violate constitutional prohibitions against discriminatory jury selection. The company claims its software has helped secure verdicts worth over $940 million, but did not respond to requests for comment.
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An attacker used synthetic audio deepfake to leave a voicemail impersonating the CEO of a technology company, asking an employee to call back to finalize an urgent business deal. The employee found it suspicious and referred the matter to the legal department, avoiding any loss. Nisos analyzed the audio and found inconsistencies in pitch and tone.
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DeepScore, a Tokyo-based company, is marketing an app that uses facial and voice recognition to score people's trustworthiness for lenders and insurers in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The company says the app can detect deception with 70 per cent accuracy, but researchers and privacy advocates say there is no reliable scientific basis for such judgments and warn of discrimination and privacy harms. The chief executive said the system is only one part of lenders' and insurers' decision-making and that people can choose not to use it. Critics respond that an unequal balance of power makes consent difficult.
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Bayerischer Rundfunk journalists conducted experiments with Retorio's AI video interview analysis tool. The AI, which assesses personality traits from short videos, produced different scores when the same actress changed her appearance (glasses, headscarf, wig) or the video background and lighting were altered. The start-up Retorio acknowledged that the AI considers external image, similar to a human interviewer. Experts warned that such software could perpetuate stereotypes and unfairly affect job candidates.
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A 64-page document alleging a conspiracy involving Hunter Biden was attributed to a fake intelligence firm, Typhoon Investigations, and a fabricated analyst named Martin Aspen. The profile picture for Aspen was created using an AI face generator, as identified by researchers. The document was disseminated by associates of President Trump and far-right influencers, contributing to a disinformation campaign. The article reports that the document's authorship was questionable and that the persona was fabricated.
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The Atlantic investigation found that dialogue from over 53,000 movies and 85,000 TV episodes was included in the OpenSubtitles data set used by Apple, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Salesforce, and Bloomberg to train AI systems. The article alleges that this use of copyrighted material was done without permission from the writers.
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