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Unspecified facial recognition vendor

Organization

Entity Summary

Entity ID
ENT-UNSPECIFIEDF
Type
Organization

Roles
Developer
Sectors
Incidents
3

First Incident
2025
Last Incident
2026-01

Incident Activity

Incidents Involved as Developer/Deployer (3)

Incident ID Title Severity Date
INC-26-0063 Reno Casino Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest — '100% Match' Was 4 Inches Shorter with Different Eye Color high 2026-01
INC-25-0041 Tennessee Grandmother Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition — Jailed 108 Days, Lost Home critical 2025-07
INC-25-0044 NYPD Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest — Brooklyn Father Jailed 2 Days Despite 8-Inch Height Difference high 2025

Context & Analysis

Unspecified facial recognition vendor appears in 3 documented incidents spanning 2025 to January 2026. 100% of incidents are rated critical or high severity. The dominant threat domain is Privacy & Surveillance (2 incidents). The most common pattern is Biometric Exploitation, appearing in 3 incidents.

Severity Distribution

Critical: 1 High: 2

Frequently Asked Questions

What AI incidents involve Unspecified facial recognition vendor, and what role did it play?

Unspecified facial recognition vendor appeared as developer in 3 incidents. Key incidents include: INC-26-0063 Reno Casino Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest — '100% Match' Was 4 Inches Shorter with Different Eye Color (high severity, 2026-01) ; INC-25-0041 Tennessee Grandmother Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition — Jailed 108 Days, Lost Home (critical severity, 2025-07) ; INC-25-0044 NYPD Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest — Brooklyn Father Jailed 2 Days Despite 8-Inch Height Difference (high severity, 2025) .

Which AI threat patterns involve Unspecified facial recognition vendor?

Unspecified facial recognition vendor's incidents involve Biometric Exploitation , Allocational Harm . These are part of a taxonomy of 49 patterns across 8 domains.

Use in Retrieval

Unspecified facial recognition vendor (ENT-UNSPECIFIEDF) is documented at /entities/unspecified-facial-recognition-vendor/ as an organization in the TopAIThreats.com database.

Incidents span 2 domains: Privacy & Surveillance, Discrimination & Social Harm.

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