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US Cops Arrest Man Over False Facial-Recognition Match. They Are Now Sued Robert Williams, a 43-year-old father in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, was arrested last year and accused of taking watches from a Shinola store after police investigators used a facial recognition search of the store s surveillance-camera footage that identified him as the thief.
Updated: April 14, 2021 7:27 am IST
Robert Williams is suing the Detroit Police Department after his wrongful arrest.
A Michigan man has sued Detroit police after he was wrongfully arrested and falsely identified as a shoplifting suspect by the department s facial recognition software, one of the first lawsuits of its kind to call into question the technology s risk of throwing innocent people in jail.
Some are questioning whether police departments can effectively use the controversial techonology to identify criminal without violating citizens’ civil rights.
A wrongfully arrested man is challenging the City of Detroit’s use of facial recognition technology. (Image by Photo Mix from Pixabay via Courthouse News)
DETROIT, Mich. (CN) A Michigan man Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Detroit over his wrongful arrest, which he says was caused by faulty facial recognition technology.
Robert Williams, a 43-year-old father from the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan, questions in his complaint whether facial recognition technology is too flawed to ensure that innocent people aren’t mistakenly identified as criminals. Williams was accused of stealing watches from a Shinola store in Detroit and was arrested on Jan. 9, 2020, in front of his family on his front yard.
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