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30 December 2020, 1:17 am EST By Man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition  ( Pexels/Donald Tong ) A man from New Jersey filed a civil suit after he was falsely arrested by police. The authorities put him in jail based solely on facial recognition software that was banned in the state. Fail facial-recognition The 33-year-old Nijeer Parks was held in custody for 10 days. He was accused of shoplifting back in 2019 in Woodbridge, it ended with the real thief h...

He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says Updated Dec 29, 2020; Facebook Share Editor’s note: This article has been updated to remove the name of a facial recognition software firm. It is unknown which facial recognition program was used to identify Nijeer Parks. It has also been updated to include a statement from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. When Nijeer Parks walked out of a New Jersey prison in 2016, he returned to his family in Paterson and told them he was done messing up his life. Twice convicted for se...