Per docs/PHASE_1_6_BIPA_GATES.md Gate 4 + AUDIT_TRAIL_PRD §4 protected-
attribute exclusion rule. The lookup tables + inference functions in
search.html (3375-3499) and console.html (245-311) were dead code in
the rendering path — headshot rendering disabled 2026-04-28 left these
functions defined but unused. Removing them forecloses both Title VII
discriminatory-feature-engineering AND BIPA biometric-information-
derived-from-biometric-identifier arguments.
Removed:
- FEMALE_NAMES, MALE_NAMES, NAMES_HISPANIC, NAMES_BLACK,
NAMES_SOUTH_ASIAN, NAMES_EAST_ASIAN, NAMES_MIDDLE_EASTERN
- SURNAMES_HISPANIC, SURNAMES_SOUTH_ASIAN, SURNAMES_EAST_ASIAN,
SURNAMES_MIDDLE_EASTERN, SURNAMES_BLACK
- guessGenderFromFirstName(), guessEthnicityFromName(),
guessEthnicityFromFirstName(), genderFor()
From both search.html and console.html. Replacement: deprecation
comment block referencing the BIPA gates doc.
Verified: zero live consumers anywhere in mcp-server/. Searched for
genderFor()/guessEthnicityFromName()/guessEthnicityFromFirstName()/
guessGenderFromFirstName() call sites — none remain.
Per J 2026-05-03: this kind of test-code-leaked-into-main is exactly
what J wants cleaned up. The face-pool inference was meant as a
testing tool for synthetic icon generation but ended up as
production-shape inference logic in the customer-facing UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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