DATDAT-002 — Data Privacy and Protection Failures
Algorithmic Systems Infer and Disclose Private Personal Data Without Consent
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Algorithmic systems routinely infer sensitive personal attributes beyond what users disclose, then transfer those inferences across contexts without knowledge or consent. Organisations face regulatory liability and reputational damage wherever data governance fails to constrain cross-context inference flows.
Domain
Data Management
Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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