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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.
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A recent wrongful arrest in Florida has highlighted issues with one of the oldest face-recognition tools used by law enforcement in the US. The tool, which has been in use for many years, was used to identify a suspect in a child-abduction case.
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