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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-eindhoven-municipal-staff-uploaded-residents-youth-care-and-social-support-files-to-public-ai-websites","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Uit die steekproef is aan het licht gekomen dat er bestanden met persoonlijke gegevens naar openbare AI-websites zoals ChatGPT zijn gestuurd.'; 'Denk aan Jeugdwetdocumenten, interne verslagen en cv'; 'De steekproef ging over de periode van 23 september tot 23 oktober'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'In een steekproef over de periode van 23 september tot 23 oktober 2025 constateerde de gemeente dat verschillende soorten bestanden met persoonsgegevens waren geüpload naar openbare AI-websites.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the council letter as reported, a sample of staff data traffic from 23 September to 23 October 2025 found that files containing personal data of residents and employees had been uploaded to public AI websites such as ChatGPT, including youth-care documents, internal reports and CVs, mostly from care and support departments.","causal_attribution":"The municipality's own account in its council letter, relayed by two outlets that share that origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'documenten uit de Jeugdwet met daarin informatie over de mentale en fysieke gezondheid van minderjarige kinderen'; 'Maar ook documenten van de Wet Maatschappelijke Ondersteuning (WMO) zijn ingevoerd.'; 'van sollicitanten en reflectieverslagen van medewerkers met daarin informatie over werkprestaties zijn in de Ai-tool terechtgekomen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to Omroep Brabant's account of the advisory firm's findings, the youth-care documents contained information about the mental and physical health of minor children, and social-support (WMO) documents, applicants' CVs and employees' reflection reports were also entered into the AI tool.","causal_attribution":"The advisory firm's findings as reported by one outlet; the report itself was not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Het datalek is op 23 oktober gemeld bij de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.'; 'De gemeente heeft OpenAI (het bedrijf achter ChatGPT) verzocht om de bestanden die vanuit Eindhoven zijn geüpload te verwijderen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Sinds 23 oktober kunnen medewerkers alleen nog gebruikmaken van Copilot binnen de beveiligde gemeente-omgeving.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The municipality reported the breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority on 23 October, stopped staff using public AI websites (allowing only Copilot in its secured environment), and asked OpenAI to delete the uploaded files.","causal_attribution":"The municipality's statements of its response, relayed by two outlets sharing the council-letter origin."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Daarom is het volgens het college ook niet mogelijk om mensen van wie gegevens gelekt zijn te informeren.'; 'Individuele gegevens die zijn geüpload in een AI-tool kunnen niet eenvoudig door derden uit de tool worden gehaald en worden misbruikt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'De gemeente Eindhoven heeft van OpenAi nog geen reactie gehad op hun verzoek, zo liet een woordvoerder vrijdag weten.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'De totale omvang van de gedeelde gegevens is niet vast te stellen, omdat deze gegevens maximaal 30 dagen beschikbaar zijn.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The council says the scale of the uploads cannot be established because the data was kept for only 30 days, that it therefore cannot inform those affected, and that individual uploaded data cannot easily be extracted by third parties though the risk cannot be fully excluded; a spokesperson said OpenAI had not yet replied.","causal_attribution":"The council's and a spokesperson's statements about scope and risk."}],"effects":[{"label":"residents' youth-care and social-support files and job applicants' CVs uploaded to public AI websites without their knowledge (council letter, as reported)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6001041/datalek-gemeente-eindhoven-deelt-persoonsgegevens-met-openbare-ai-websites","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch on 2026-10-12; quoted passages were translated into English by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Omroep Brabant's report of the council information letter.","independence_group":"eindhoven-council-letter"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6001062/datalek-eindhoven-met-kwetsbare-burgers-verwijderverzoek-is-kansloos","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch on 2026-10-12; quoted passages were translated into English by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Omroep Brabant's follow-up citing the advisory firm's findings and a municipal spokesperson; the firm's report itself was not read.","independence_group":"omroep-brabant-hooghiemstra-findings"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/digitaal/gemeente-eindhoven-blokkeert-chatgpt-na-datalek","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch on 2026-10-12; quoted passages were translated into English by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Binnenlands Bestuur's report of the same council letter, so it shares the first source's group.","independence_group":"eindhoven-council-letter"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["public_services","health","work","privacy"],"unknowns":["How many residents, children, applicants and employees had data uploaded.","Whether uploads happened before or after the 23 September to 23 October 2025 sample window.","Which AI websites other than ChatGPT received files, and which account types staff used.","Whether OpenAI deleted the files, and whether any data was retained or used for training.","Whether the Dutch Data Protection Authority has taken a decision on the notification."],"geography":{"basis":"The uploads were found in the data traffic of the municipality of Eindhoven's staff, and the files concern residents and employees of that Dutch municipality. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["NL"],"affected_person_countries":["NL"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-10-06 private-information ruling: the municipality's council letter, as reported by two outlets, describes staff actually uploading files with residents' youth-care and social-support data and applicants' CVs to public AI websites such as ChatGPT, without the knowledge of the people concerned. The scale is unknown and is recorded as such; the council's view that misuse risk is limited is recorded with it.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-12"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The municipality's council letter, as reported by two outlets, states that a sample of staff data traffic found files with residents' and employees' personal data, including youth-care documents, had been sent to public AI websites such as ChatGPT, and the municipality asked OpenAI to delete the uploaded files. The privacy harm is that transfer of residents' and employees' records into AI services without their knowledge. The sources report the uploads; they report no output about the people concerned, and whether the data was retained or used for training is not established (an expert's view on training is opinion).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["received_personal_information"]},"name":"Eindhoven municipality says staff uploaded files with residents' youth-care and social-support data and applicants' CVs to public AI websites such as ChatGPT","summary":"The municipality of Eindhoven in the Netherlands told its council in an information letter shared on Thursday 18 December 2025 that a sample of staff data traffic from 23 September to 23 October 2025 showed files containing personal data of residents and employees had been sent to public AI websites such as ChatGPT, according to Omroep Brabant and Binnenlands Bestuur. The files included youth-care (Jeugdwet) documents, internal reports and CVs, mostly from departments that provide care and support to residents. According to Omroep Brabant's account of findings by the advisory firm Hooghiemstra & Partners, the youth-care documents held information about the mental and physical health of minor children, and social-support (WMO) documents and applicants' CVs were also entered. The municipality reported the breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority on 23 October, blocked public AI websites and asked OpenAI to delete the files. The council says the scale cannot be determined because the data was kept for only 30 days, so it cannot inform those affected, and that the risk of misuse is limited but cannot be ruled out. A spokesperson said OpenAI had not yet replied.","incidentDate":"2025-09-23","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-12-18","aiSystem":"Public AI websites, which the municipality's council letter, as reported, names with ChatGPT as the example; the municipality asked OpenAI to delete the uploaded files","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the municipality's council letter as reported, staff uploaded files containing personal data of residents and employees, including youth-care documents about children's mental and physical health and social-support files, to public AI websites such as ChatGPT; the council says it cannot determine the scale or inform those affected.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The council says the scale cannot be established because the uploaded data was kept for only 30 days, and that it therefore cannot inform the people concerned. No count of residents, children, applicants or employees is given, so numeric zero placeholders are recorded. The staff who uploaded the files are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"NL","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6001041/datalek-gemeente-eindhoven-deelt-persoonsgegevens-met-openbare-ai-websites","primarySourceLabel":"Omroep Brabant, 19 December 2025: Eindhoven data breach, municipality shares personal data with public AI websites","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-12T03:35:14.550754+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:35:14.550754+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["privacy","government","municipality","youth-care","health-data","chatgpt","unauthorised-ai-use","netherlands"]},{"id":"2025-uk-royal-mail-christmas-ad-ai-voiceover-resembling-late-narrator-daughter-distress","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Royal Mail, Britain' and 'admitted that it used artificial intelligence to deliver its festive message to the nation.' and 'We can reveal that Fameplay licensed its AI technology from ElevenLabs'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'As is increasingly common, the voiceover was AI-generated and we were advised that it was created using prompts and was not designed to replicate any specific individual.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Royal Mail confirmed that the voiceover in its 2025 Christmas advert was AI-generated; Deadline reports that the agency subcontracted it to the AI company Fameplay, which licensed technology from ElevenLabs.","causal_attribution":"Royal Mail statement and Deadline reporting; the AI generation of the voice is not disputed."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'It was November 2025, 11 years after her father had passed.' and 'feared that Vaughan' and 'voice was somehow recreated without permission.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'No one in my family had given anyone permission to use his voice. No one had asked. I was really upset by the whole experience.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Vaughan's daughter heard the advert in November 2025, believed the voice was her late father's, and says she was upset that it was used without the family's permission.","causal_attribution":"The daughter's own account given in two interviews; one witness and one origin."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'said there was “considerable phonetic similarity” between the voice in the Royal Mail ads and that of Vaughan.' and 'All three said there were enough similarities to conclude that there was a good chance the AI-generated voice was the “same speaker” as Vaughan.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'There is considerable phonetic similarity between the voice in the Royal Mail adverts and that of Paul Vaughan'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A forensic speech scientist said there was considerable phonetic similarity between the advert voice and Vaughan's, and Deadline reported that three open-source analysis tools indicated a good chance they were the same speaker.","causal_attribution":"Expert opinion and Deadline's own tool comparison; it supports resemblance and does not establish how the voice was generated."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the company insisted no reference to Vaughan was used in its generative prompts.' and 'the company would only confirm that the Royal Mail narration was not a direct voice clone of Vaughan.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was not designed to replicate any specific individual.' and 'The production partners also carried out checks and advised that these did not identify any resemblance concerns.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Royal Mail said the voice was not designed to replicate any specific individual and that checks found no resemblance concerns; Fameplay said no reference to Vaughan was used in its prompts, and ElevenLabs said the narration was not a direct clone of Vaughan.","causal_attribution":"Company denials, recorded as contrary evidence."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'has not received an apology from the Royal Mail after complaining.' and 'ElevenLabs has added Vaughan to its No Go Voices'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The daughter complained to Royal Mail and received no apology; ElevenLabs added Vaughan to its No Go Voices list.","causal_attribution":"Deadline reporting of the aftermath."}],"effects":[{"label":"shock and distress on hearing an AI-generated advert voice she recognised as her late father's, used without the family's permission","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://deadline.com/2026/10/paul-vaughan-bbc-paddington-ai-royal-mail-1237149879/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation was needed and no human reviewer inspected the text. HTTP 200, full article body retained.","independence_group":"deadline-royal-mail-vaughan"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/paul-vaughan-ai-voice-royal-mail-christmas-advert-2025-b3064151.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation was needed and no human reviewer inspected the text. Read on the MSN content-API syndicated copy (provider The Independent, same text); it relays Deadline and adds its own Royal Mail statement.","independence_group":"deadline-royal-mail-vaughan"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2255616/experts-warn-ai-dangers-royal-2255616","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation was needed and no human reviewer inspected the text. Read on the MSN content-API syndicated copy (provider Daily Express, same text).","independence_group":"express-royal-mail-vaughan"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","relationships"],"unknowns":["How the voice was generated and whether the underlying model was trained on Vaughan's recordings; ElevenLabs declined to comment on training.","The dates the advert aired beyond November 2025, and whether Royal Mail has withdrawn or altered it."],"geography":{"basis":"Deadline reports that the daughter heard the Royal Mail advert on ITV at home in Buckinghamshire, England, in November 2025, and the campaign was Royal Mail's UK Christmas campaign. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a case of an AI-generated advert voice reaching a bereaved relative: Royal Mail confirms the voiceover was AI-generated, the late narrator's daughter recognised it as her father and describes her distress, and a forensic speech scientist and Deadline's tool comparison report close similarity. Two reporting chains were read (Deadline, relayed by The Independent, and the Daily Express). The companies deny that the voice was designed to copy him or is a direct clone, so causation is recorded as disputed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Royal Mail told The Independent and the Daily Express that \"the voiceover was AI-generated\", created using prompts, and Deadline reports that Royal Mail admitted using artificial intelligence for it. Deadline reports that the voiceover was subcontracted to Fameplay, which licensed ElevenLabs technology. The generated narration is what the daughter heard and recognised as her father: she said \"that was Dad\", and a forensic speech scientist found \"considerable phonetic similarity\" between the advert voice and Vaughan's. The AI-generated voice is undisputed; whether it imitates Vaughan is disputed by Royal Mail, Fameplay and ElevenLabs.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"UK: Royal Mail confirms AI-generated voiceover in 2025 Christmas ad that late narrator Paul Vaughan's daughter says was his voice; firms deny a clone","summary":"Royal Mail's 2025 Christmas television campaign ended with a narrator speaking the slogan \"Royal Mail, it's so much more than just a card\". In November 2025 the daughter of the BBC narrator Paul Vaughan, who died in 2014 and was known for Horizon and the Paddington audiobooks, heard the advert on television and believed the voice was her father's; Deadline reports that she feared his voice had been recreated without permission, and she told the Daily Express that no one in the family had given permission and that she was really upset. Responding to questions from Deadline, Royal Mail admitted using AI for the voiceover; its spokesperson told The Independent and the Daily Express that the voiceover was AI-generated, created using prompts and not designed to replicate any specific individual, and that its production partners' checks found no resemblance concerns. Deadline reported that the agency subcontracted the voiceover to the Czech AI firm Fameplay, which licensed technology from ElevenLabs; Fameplay said no reference to Vaughan was used in its prompts and ElevenLabs said the narration was not a direct clone of Vaughan, while declining to say whether its model was trained on his recordings. A University of York forensic speech scientist was quoted by both outlets as finding considerable phonetic similarity between the advert voice and Vaughan's, and Deadline reported that three open-source analysis tools indicated a good chance the voices were the same speaker. Deadline reports that she complained to Royal Mail and has received no apology; ElevenLabs has added Vaughan to its list of voices that cannot be cloned on its platform.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-09","aiSystem":"AI-generated voiceover for the slogan of Royal Mail's 2025 Christmas television campaign, subcontracted by the ad agency to Fameplay, a Czech AI voice company that Deadline reports licensed its technology from ElevenLabs.","aiProduct":"Fameplay AI voiceover (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The late narrator's daughter says that hearing what she recognised as her dead father's voice in the AI-generated advert, eleven years after his death and without the family's permission, left her shocked and upset; the Daily Express quotes her as saying she was really upset by the whole experience. Royal Mail and the AI companies deny that the voice was designed to replicate him. No other harm is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: Vaughan's daughter, who describes her own distress on hearing the advert. Her husband heard the advert but no harm to him is reported, and television viewers are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://deadline.com/2026/10/paul-vaughan-bbc-paddington-ai-royal-mail-1237149879/","primarySourceLabel":"Deadline, 9 October 2026: daughter of late BBC and Paddington narrator accuses Royal Mail of recreating her father's voice with AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:25:26.999857+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T03:25:26.999857+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-voice","voice-cloning","advertising","royal-mail","elevenlabs","deceased-person","united-kingdom","depicted","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2025-baltimore-county-md-school-ai-gun-alert-chip-bag-student-searched","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"after an AI-driven security system flagged the teen's empty bag of chips as a possible firearm","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"How did it come to be that we had police officers with guns drawn approaching a kid because of a bag of Doritos?","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders at Kenwood High School that a student had a gun.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Police officers responded to the school, searched the individual, and quickly confirmed that they were not in possession of any weapons.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"An AI gun detection system (Omnilert) alerted on a Kenwood High School student in Baltimore County, the object was a bag of chips and not a weapon, and police searched the student.","causal_attribution":"The reports connect the police response to the alert. The district and the vendor say the system operated as designed and that humans review alerts, so responsibility for the police response is contested between the system, the review steps and the responding staff."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back, and cuffed me,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"they had a gun pointed at me","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"handcuffed and searched","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The student reported being made to kneel, being handcuffed and searched, and having a gun pointed at them.","causal_attribution":"First-person account given to a local television station and relayed by the CNN wire and the Guardian (one chain). CNN also states the handcuffing in its own voice without naming a source other than the student interview. Police statements inspected confirm a search only."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"reviewed and canceled the gun detection alert after confirming there was no weapon","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The principal didn't immediately realize the alert had been canceled","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"she reported the matter to Kenwood's school resource officer, who called local police for support","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The Department of School Safety and Security reviewed and canceled the initial alert after confirming there was no weapon.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The school district security department reviewed and canceled the alert after confirming there was no weapon. A district spokesperson said the principal did not immediately realize the alert had been canceled. The principal reported the matter to the school resource officer, who called police.","causal_attribution":"Account of the review sequence comes from the principal letter and district spokespeople. It attributes the police response to a communication gap after human review and does not exonerate the alert."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Baltimore County officials say they want a review of the process that led to Monday's police response.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Baltimore County councilmembers are calling on school officials and police to review an A.I. gun detection system","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Our counselors will provide direct support to the students who were involved in this incident","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"County councilmembers called for a review of the AI system, and the school said counselors would support the students involved.","causal_attribution":"Institutional responses reported by the outlets. The outcome of any review is not established in the inspected sources."}],"effects":[{"label":"Student searched by armed police after a false AI weapon alert","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://abc7.com/post/student-handcuffed-doritos-bag-mistaken-gun-schools-ai-security-system-baltimore-county-maryland/18073796/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wbal-relay"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wbal-relay"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/false-alarm-gun-detection-kenwood-maryland-artificial-intelligence-review/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wjz-cbs-baltimore"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["education","public_services"],"unknowns":["Event date is derived from the reports' \"Monday\" references relative to their publication dates (23 to 26 October 2025). The inspected bodies do not print the calendar date of the event.","The handcuffing and gun-pointing account is one first-person account relayed by two outlets, and CNN also states the handcuffing in its own voice without another named source. Police statements inspected confirm only a search after a report of a suspicious person with a weapon.","The outcome of the county review is not reported in the inspected sources.","The student's exact age is not stated. Sources call the student a teen and a child.","Vendor and district statements say the system worked as designed and that humans review alerts. Whether the review step or the alert caused the police dispatch is not settled."],"geography":{"basis":"The reports place the event at a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, with the county police department and county council responding. Country is stated by place names in the inspected reports and is not inferred from outlet or vendor headquarters.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Three news reports read in full (one via Internet Archive capture). The AI alert, the absence of a weapon and the search are separately reported. The handcuffing account is attributed to the student. The student's name is omitted because the student is a minor.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Two separately reported chains say the AI alert flagged the object: the CNN wire with a vendor statement (its student account is WBAL-derived, as is the Guardian, a WBAL relay), and local CBS reporting with vendor and superintendent statements. Both also report human review steps between the alert and the police response.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Baltimore County, Maryland: school AI gun alert on a bag of chips leads to police search of a student","summary":"On a Monday evening in October 2025 (20 October by the reports' weekday references) an AI gun detection system (Omnilert) used at Kenwood High School alerted on a student holding an empty bag of chips. Police responded and searched the student and found no weapon. The student told a local television station that officers made them kneel, handcuffed them and pointed a gun at them. The school district says its security department reviewed and canceled the alert after confirming there was no weapon, and a district spokesperson said the principal did not immediately realize the alert had been canceled. County councilmembers called for a review. No outcome of a review is established in the sources.","incidentDate":"2025-10-20","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-23","aiSystem":"Omnilert AI Gun Detection System (video analytics on school security cameras)","aiProduct":"Omnilert gun detection","aiCompany":"Omnilert","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A student was searched by police after the AI alert and reported being handcuffed at gunpoint and fearing for their life (student account relayed by CNN and the Guardian). The school letter confirms a search and offers counseling.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One student who was searched. Other students who witnessed the event are mentioned in the school letter but are not counted without a reported harm to each.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/false-alarm-gun-detection-kenwood-maryland-artificial-intelligence-review/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Baltimore (WJZ): A.I. gun detection false alarm at school has Baltimore County leaders calling for review, 23 October 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T12:42:19.255568+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:56.487109+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2026-nt-police-deepfake-video-former-assistant-commissioner","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In December 2025, I became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using my official Northern Territory Police photograph,'; 'The video was then allegedly shared among serving members of the police force.'; 'A former Northern Territory Police assistant commissioner has taken her old colleagues to court for sharing a deepfake sexually explicit video that used her professional photograph.'; 'Ms Tonkin said what happened to her was \"extremely distressing, personally and professionally\".'; 'Janelle Tonkin issued a statement yesterday after criminal proceedings on the issue were finalised'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings were finalised, the former NT Police assistant commissioner said that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she took former colleagues to court over it; she described the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's own statement and the ABC's description; the court proceedings and their outcome were not inspected. The 23 September date is derived from 'yesterday' in an article posted 24 September 2026."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The outcome of the court proceedings is unknown.'; 'However, the conduct that Commander Tonkin was subject to in this matter, was, and always will be, totally unacceptable,'; 'The NT Police Association (NTPA) also condemned the conduct, but could not confirm details of an internal police investigation into the matter'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported; the NT Police Force said it does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained on matters before the court, but called the conduct totally unacceptable; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct and could not confirm details of any internal investigation.","causal_attribution":"Statements to the ABC by the NT Police Force and the NTPA."}],"effects":[{"label":"an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from a senior police officer's official photograph was circulated among her colleagues, which she describes as extremely distressing personally and professionally","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-AU","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (ABC News, Kylie Stevenson and Tilda Colling, 24 September 2026; html lang=en-AU). Carries Ms Tonkin's statement of 23 September, the NT Police Force and NT Police Association responses.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ntnews.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nt/former-nt-police-assistant-commissioner-janelle-tonkin-alleges-multiple-cops-shared-extremely-distressing-pornographic-deepfake-video/news-story/982b30e4376d3a54781c2d5a63576e2f","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"Not read: the NT News item of 23 September 2026 returned HTTP 403 to this host (News Corp Australia); its headline in the Bing News feed refers to the same statement. Listed for completeness; no claim rests on it.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who created and who shared the video, how many officers were involved and how widely it circulated.","The charges laid, the court, and the outcome of the criminal proceedings (described by the ABC as finalised but unknown).","When the video was created; she became aware of it in December 2025.","The tool used to generate the video.","Whether an internal NT Police investigation or disciplinary process is continuing.","Whether Ms Tonkin remains a serving member of the NT Police Force: the ABC calls her a former assistant commissioner, while the NTPF statement refers to her as Commander Tonkin."],"geography":{"basis":"The video was circulated among serving members of the Northern Territory Police Force, the complainant's workplace when the video circulated (her own words: 'circulated among colleagues'), and the criminal proceedings concerned former colleagues in the Northern Territory (ABC News). Her residence is not stated separately; the affected-person country records her NT Police workplace. The court is not named in the report; court_countries is left empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a workplace deepfake case with one identified depicted person who made the account public in her own name: an AI-generated sexually explicit video created from a senior officer's official photograph and allegedly circulated among her colleagues, reported by ABC News with the complainant's statement and the police force's and association's responses (one chain; a paywalled News Corp report was not read). Claims are recorded as reported; no alleged offender is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Ms Tonkin's statement, quoted by ABC News, says the sexually explicit video was 'AI-generated' and created from her official police photograph; the ABC describes it as a deepfake. No tool is identified and no court finding on the video's creation is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Former NT Police assistant commissioner says an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from her official police photograph circulated among colleagues","summary":"Janelle Tonkin, a former assistant commissioner of the Northern Territory Police Force and now president of the Australasian Council of Women and Policing, said in a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings on the matter were finalised, that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports that the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she had taken former colleagues to court over it. She called the experience 'extremely distressing, personally and professionally' and said having her professional portrait 'turned into pornography and circulated among colleagues is something no person should have to experience'. The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported. An NT Police spokesperson said the force does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained from commenting on matters before the court, but that the conduct she was subjected to 'was, and always will be, totally unacceptable'; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct. Ms Tonkin said the video sat within a broader set of experiences in the force that she intends to describe later.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"AI video-generation ('deepfake') tool used to create a sexually explicit video from an official police portrait photograph; not identified in the report","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A senior police officer's official portrait was used to create an AI-generated sexually explicit video that was allegedly circulated among her serving colleagues; she describes the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally (her own statement as reported by ABC News). The circulation and the court proceedings are as described by ABC News; the proceedings' outcome is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, the former assistant commissioner who issued the statement (ABC News). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"AU","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 24 September 2026: NT police officers allegedly circulated sexually explicit AI-generated video of former assistant commissioner","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-25T03:54:29.681398+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:16:24.051108+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","workplace","police","australia","northern-territory","criminal-proceedings","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}