All known cases of false arrests due to facial recognition technology were of Black or African American people, the ACLU said.
Randal Quran Reid was wrongfully arrested due to misuse of artificial intelligence, or AI, in facial recognition tech, a lawsuit claims.A Black man was wrongfully arrested and held for nearly a week in jail because of the alleged misuse of, according to a civil lawsuit filed against the arresting police officers.
The DeKalb County, Georgia police officers who pulled Reid over were in possession of two warrants issued by Jefferson and East Baton Rouge Parishes in Louisiana for Reid's arrest, according to a lawsuit filed by Reid for an unspecified amount. He was then taken to a DeKalb County jail to await extradition to Louisiana, according to Reid.
" spit out three names: Quran plus two individuals," Gary Andrews, Reid's lawyer and senior attorney at The Cochran Firm in Atlanta, told ABC News. "It is our belief that the detective in this case took those names ... and just sought arrest warrants without doing any other investigation, without doing anything else to determine whether or not Quran was actually the individual that was in the store video.
"Part of the problem with this technology is that the public lacks good information about how it's actually being used," Wessler told ABC News. "It's often used in tremendous secrecy by police. And we know that it often misidentifies people, which has led to wrongful arrests in six known cases but probably more cases than that."
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