Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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California truck driver Rodrigo Garcia sued his former employer, Figueroa Tank Lines, and Samsara, maker of its AI-powered in-cab video surveillance, saying his August 2025 dismissal was whistleblower retaliation and that the monitoring invaded his privacy without consent.
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CVS reached a tentative settlement of a proposed class action by a Massachusetts job applicant who said his 2021 HireVue video interview was analysed with Affectiva's AI to track facial expressions without notice, amounting to a lie detector test banned by state law. He could not opt out or challenge the assessment, and was not hired.
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Cigna, one of the largest health insurers, used an algorithm called PXDX to automatically deny medical claims. The system flagged mismatches between diagnoses and procedures, and company doctors signed off on denials in batches without reviewing patient files. One patient, Nick van Terheyden, was denied coverage for a $350 vitamin D test that his doctor had ordered. Former employees said the system saved Cigna billions of dollars but left patients with unexpected bills.
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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 robotaxi was involved in an accident in Dänikon on Friday with minor property damage. The driving system mistakenly classified a ground plate as drivable, resulting in tire damage. The Federal Roads Office confirmed that safe continued operation of the remaining vehicles is possible.
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The Galileu AI system, developed by the Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 4ª Região (TRT-RS) and nationalised by the Conselho Superior da Justiça do Trabalho (CSJT), detected a prompt injection attempt in a petition filed at the 3rd Labour Court of Parauapebas, Pará. The system alerted the magistrate, who reviewed the content and made a decision based on human verification, in line with judicial AI supervision requirements. The court reported that the system prevented the malicious content from being processed and highlighted the importance of institutional AI tools with security measures.
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Two Harvard students built a system called I-XRAY that uses Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses and the facial recognition service Pimeyes to automatically identify strangers and retrieve their personal information, including name, phone number, and home address. The students tested the system on unsuspecting people in public to demonstrate the privacy risks. They are not releasing the code.
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In July 2020, the International Baccalaureate (IB) program used a statistical model to predict final grades for over 170,000 students after cancelling exams due to Covid-19. Many students, including Anahita Nagpal, received lower-than-expected scores, causing them to lose college places and scholarships. Students, parents, and teachers questioned the fairness and transparency of the algorithm, with over 15,000 signing a petition demanding a fairer approach. IB defended the model but offered an appeals process, while some students planned to retake exams at their own expense.
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noyb filed a complaint against Ryanair with the Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) on 27 July 2023. A customer who booked a Ryanair flight through online travel agency eDreams was required to undergo a facial recognition verification process or go to the check-in counter more than two hours before departure. The customer was charged a small fee for the verification. Ryanair outsources the facial recognition to GetID. noyb alleges that the process violates GDPR because consent is not valid and the purpose is to discourage bookings through third-party agents.
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Xpeng Motors was fined 100,000 yuan by Shanghai's market regulation authority for collecting 431,623 facial images of customers without consent. The company used surveillance cameras with facial recognition from a third-party supplier, Ulucu, to analyze customer traffic. Xpeng stated it removed the devices and deleted all data before the inspection, and that no data was leaked or misused.
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An independent report found that the Australian government's Vera-2R terrorism risk assessment tool included autism spectrum disorders as a risk factor without empirical evidence. The tool was used to assess terrorist offenders, influencing post-sentence orders including ongoing detention. Despite the critical report being received in May 2020, the federal and NSW governments continued to use the tool. The report concluded the tool was 'extremely poor' at predicting risk.
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The city of Suresnes has allowed startup XXII to use its public CCTV cameras for 18 months to develop algorithms for detecting suspicious behavior. The algorithms are experimental and may have high error rates. Residents were not informed or consulted. The startup will own the data and can use the city's surveillance center as a showroom for clients.
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On 23 September 2021, a Xpeng P7 owner in China was using the NGP automatic navigation assisted driving system when the vehicle failed to identify a flatbed truck ahead and collided with its rear. The driver, who trusted the system to brake automatically, sustained slight injuries. Xpeng Motors stated that the system's functions were operating normally before the crash and that further analysis would be conducted. Experts suggested the visual camera may have misjudged the distance due to the truck's unusual shape.
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The system generated fabricated legal citations and quotes in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered a police app used in Xinjiang, China, revealing that the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) collects vast personal data and flags individuals as suspicious based on broad criteria. The system targets ethnic Uyghurs and Turkic Muslims, leading to mass arbitrary detention, forced indoctrination, and movement restrictions. The Chinese government operates the system, supplied by a subsidiary of CETC, and has not informed or obtained consent from those surveilled. The report calls for shutting down the system and releasing detainees.
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A class action lawsuit alleges that UDR, Inc. used RealPage's YieldStar algorithmic pricing software to set rental rates and occupancy levels for its San Diego properties, in violation of a local ordinance. The suit claims the software relied on nonpublic competitor data, contributing to inflated rents and making housing less affordable. The lawsuit, filed in July 2026, seeks to represent all affected tenants. UDR has previously acknowledged using YieldStar as one tool among others in its decision-making.
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The European Union is set to trial an AI-powered lie detector system called iBorderCtrl at airports in Hungary, Latvia and Greece. The system uses a virtual avatar to question passengers and monitors their facial expressions to detect deception. Privacy groups have raised concerns about bias and error rates, noting that the technology has only been tested on 32 people. The trial will require passenger consent and will be overseen by human guards.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the defendant's legal representation and the court's resources.
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In 2020, Collaborations Pharmaceuticals demonstrated that its AI drug discovery system, MegaSyn, could be repurposed to generate toxic molecules similar to the nerve agent VX. The company ran the software overnight and produced 40,000 potentially hazardous substances. The researchers presented their findings at a conference and briefed the White House, warning that such AI systems could be misused to create chemical weapons.
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In April 2018, ViaQuatro installed the Digital Interactive Doors System, developed by AdMobilize, on the São Paulo metro's yellow line. The system used cameras to detect passengers' faces and claimed to infer their emotion, age, and gender in order to target advertisements. The Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection (IDEC) filed a public civil action alleging that the system violated consumer and data protection laws by processing biometric data without consent and making pseudoscientific and discriminatory inferences. A judge ordered the cameras removed in August 2018, and the case is pending a final ruling.
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Dozens of hospitals across the US are using Epic's deterioration index AI system to predict which Covid-19 patients will become critically ill, despite the tool not being validated for the new disease. The rapid deployment during the pandemic bypassed normal testing and validation processes.
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AI generated hallucinated content in a court filing, affecting the legal process and the lawyers who filed it.
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Elon Musk has told X users to upload medical images to the platform so that the AI chatbot Grok can learn to interpret them. He claimed Grok can give medical diagnoses, sometimes better than doctors, but experts have raised concerns about accuracy and privacy. The article reports cases where Grok misread a tuberculosis case and a mammogram. xAI, which owns X, responded to Fortune: 'Legacy Media Lies.'
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A defendant in an armed-robbery case in Fairfax County is challenging a secret algorithm used by the Virginia crime lab to interpret DNA evidence. The lab could not make a conventional match because skin-cell DNA on the victim's shirt was mixed with DNA from too many people; the algorithm identified the defendant as a contributor. The defendant is seeking to scrutinise the algorithm, reportedly for the first time.
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