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Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges
A 61-year-old man alleges that a facial recognition algorithm used a mugshot from the 1980s to ID him in a crime he didn't commit.
Hours after being beaten and gang-raped, the charges against him were dropped and he was released.”“All of this because a company told the police, based on artificial intelligence, that you were the one who committed terrible crimes,” the lawsuit said.The armed robbery happened on January 22, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Many of them produce poor quality images and videos that make it hard to identify people.Over the past ten years, retail stores began to hook up these cameras to facial recognition software systems. The idea is a computer could automatically identify known criminals when they enter a retail location and alert law enforcement or loss prevention agents to track the person’s movements.But facial recognition technology is infamously unreliable.
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