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Tech For Bad Hall Of Shame

Explore 14 projects in the Tech For Bad Hall Of Shame category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

USA
2022

Unfreedom Monitor

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

Stichting Global Voices, Kingsfodweg 151, 1043GR Amsterdam, The Netherlands

DOGE Master Database

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

Washington, DC
2025
surveillance, Project 2025

Bail-setting algorithms in Philadelphia

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

Philadelphia
2017
criminal justice

Artificial Intelligence Incident Database

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

MIT AI Risk Repository

The MIT AI risk Repository is a comprehensive living database of over 1000 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
"Industry, innovation, and infrastructure"

Surveillance Watch

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

surveillance

ICERAID

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

2025
immigration

Max and Lime HD TV

Russian state-mandated apps for mobiles and TVs

Moscow