The city of Detroit has reached a settlement with the Detroit Police Department over the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, who was misidentified by facial recognition technology in 2020 for a shoplifting crime he did not commit. The arrest occurred in front of his wife and two young daughters. The settlement includes a payment of $300,000 to Williams and the implementation of new rules governing the use of facial recognition technology by the police. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has indicated that these new rules should be considered a national standard. This settlement follows other wrongful arrests by the Detroit Police Department due to incorrect facial recognition matches.
The Detroit Police Department wrongfully arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches. Now it’s adopting new rules for police use of the technology that the ACLU says should be the national standard. https://t.co/IjF5y58pk5
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Detroit Police Department agrees to new rules around facial recognition tech https://t.co/IrikYdZXBQ
Detroit Police Department agrees to new rules around facial recognition tech: As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department has agreed to new guardrails limiting how it can use facial recognition technology. These new… https://t.co/Apj730K359 #AI #AInews #AItips
The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting after facial recognition technology incorrectly flagged him as a likely match. https://t.co/Z84r9O6Mce
Robert Williams sued the Detroit Police Department after facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a theft suspect. https://t.co/20fK6VqteU
The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting and also change how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes. https://t.co/YflLbOJLZT
BREAKING: We just reached a settlement with the Detroit Police Department over its wrongful arrest of Robert Williams, who was misidentified by face recognition technology and arrested in 2020 in front of his wife and two young daughters for a crime he did not commit.
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Regulators are trying to limit police use of AI facial recognition technology. The wrongly accused say these efforts don’t go far enough, via @CalMatters: https://t.co/2bnLgjmq5A