Grandfather Sues Sunglass Hut After Facial Recognition Led to False Arrest
A 61-year-old grandfather sues Macy's and Sunglass Hut over the stores' use of facial recognition tech that led to his wrongful imprisonment.
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A 61-year-old grandfather sues Macy's and Sunglass Hut over the stores' use of facial recognition tech that led to his wrongful imprisonment.
After a man filed a lawsuit against Sunglasses Hut and Macy’s after he says he was wrongfully arrested and jailed in Harris County due to faulty facial recognition technology, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said the department will examine how their investigation was conducted.
A Texas grandfather was arrested, accused of robbing a Sunglass Hut on West Gray in the River Oaks Shopping Center. The crime did happen, but the 61-year-old wasn’t in Houston, he wasn’t even in the state when it happened. He was more than 2,000 miles away in California.
We've already been seeing the upsetting and harmful consequences that can come from the use of artificial intelligence -- but this grandfather's claims
A Texas man filed a lawsuit on Jan. 18 claiming that he was wrongfully accused of stealing from a Sunglass Hut location in Houston. According to HuffPost, Harvey Murphy Jr., 61, is suing Macy’s and parent company EssilorLuxottica — the parent company of Sunglass Hut — for false imprisonment and negligence.