'Law enforcement must drop this dangerous technology—we shouldn't have to worry about being falsely arrested because an algorithm gets it wrong,' said the ACLU after a Georgia man was misidentified as a purse thief.
, which caught the attention of Fight for the Future, a digital rights group that has long advocated against law enforcement andusing such technology, partly because of its shortcomings and the risk of outcomes like this.
;“- Cops are using facial recognition without disclosing the fact that they're using it\n- Police can scan your face using your driver's license photo, pics on social media, and more\n- You can be arrested, your life can be upended because of a machine's mistake;”Reid—a 28-year-old Black man misidentified as one of three people who allegedly stole over $10,000 in Chanel and Louis Vuitton purses from a pair of shops via bogus credit card purchases—was pulled over...
"Not eating, not sleeping. I'm thinking about these charges. Not doing anything because I don't know what's really going on the whole time," he said. "They didn't even try to make the right ID."that Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives "tacitly" admitted the misidentification and rescinded a July warrant.
As Fight for the Future summarized: "Police blindly trusted a facial recognition scan to arrest a man in Georgia. He was wrongly imprisoned for a WEEK. Now the cops are stonewalling the press about their failure."
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